Pork Chop Hill
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- For the Korean War battles, see Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Written by | S. L. A. Marshall |
| Starring | Gregory Peck Woody Strode |
| Distributed by | United Artists MGM (DVD release) |
| Release date(s) | 29 May 1959 |
| Running time | 97 min. |
| Language | English |
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Pork Chop Hill (1959) is a war film directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Gregory Peck and Woody Strode, and introduced many actors who became movie stars in the 1960s and the 1970s, (e.g. George Peppard, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Robert Blake, Norman Fell, Martin Landau and Gavin MacLeod). It is based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall. The book recounts the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between soldiers of the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese Communist Forces in the tail end of the Korean War, in April of 1953.
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In the last days of the Korean War, a company of American soldiers are sent to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Communist Chinese Army force. They successfully recapture the hill top, but are depleted. They ready for the large-scale Chinese counter-attack in which they know they will be overwhelmed and killed. The vicious fighting occurred during the Panmunjeom cease-fire negotiations. The film suggests that the Chinese continue losing soldiers over the insignificant hill simply to demonstrate political resolve at the bargaining table. The question is: How will the Americans respond?
