Porkchop Hill
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| Directed by |
Lewis Milestone Gregory Peck |
| Produced by | Sy Bartlett |
| Screenplay by | James R. Webb |
| Based on |
Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action 1956 novel by S. L. A. Marshall |
| Starring |
Gregory Peck Rip Torn George Shibata Woody Strode Harry Guardino George Peppard James Edwards |
| Music by | Leonard Rosenman |
| Cinematography | Sam Leavitt |
| Edited by | George Boemler |
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Production
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Melville Productions
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Release date
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Running time
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97 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $ 3 million |
| Box office | $2.1 million (est. domestic) |
Pork Chop Hill is a 1959 American Korean War film starring Gregory Peck, Rip Torn and George Peppard. The film, which was the final war film directed by Lewis Milestone, is based upon the book by U.S. military historian Brigadier General S. L. A. Marshall. It depicts the first fierce Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S. Army's 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese and North Korean forces in April 1953.
The film features numerous actors who would go on to become movie and television stars in the 1960s and the 1970s such as Woody Strode, Harry Guardino, Robert Blake, Norman Fell, Abel Fernandez, Gavin MacLeod, Harry Dean Stanton, and Clarence Williams III. It is also the screen debut of Martin Landau and George Shibata, who was a West Point classmate of Lieutenant Joe Clemons, who also acted as technical adviser on the film.
In April 1953, during the Korean War, a company of American infantry, led by Lieutenant Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) are to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Communist Chinese army force; they recapture the hill, but are depleted, only 25 of a 135-man unit are left. They prepare for a large-scale Chinese counter-attack which they know will overwhelm and kill them in vicious fire fights and hand-to-hand fighting while the Panmunjeom cease-fire negotiations continue.
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