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Pork Chop Hill

Gregory Peck (Actor, Producer), Harry Guardino (Actor), Lewis Milestone (Director) Rated:

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Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) has been given the order: take Pork Chop Hill. If it's taken by the Chinese, US negotiators at the Panmunjom peace conference would lose face with their communist adversariesan unthinkable outcome. And so, Clemons leads his troops into combat, to fight for an objective that they know to be strategically pointless. But they also know that an order is an order and they must take Pork Chop Hillor die tryingso that millions can live in freedom tomorrow for what Clemons and his men will sacrifice today. Based on a true story and featuring an all-star supporting cast, Pork Chop Hill is an exceptional film"grim, rugged, awesome and lastingly impressive" (The New York Times).

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This gritty, grim Korean war drama presents the grueling ordeal of a platoon charged with taking a hill of no military value during the final days of the war. While diplomats and generals argue over peace negotiations (in an appropriately wordless montage under the opening credits), tough but compassionate Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) leads a unit of 135 men up a well-guarded hill while miscommunication--and at times no communication--cuts them off from reinforcements and regimental command. Shot against a bleak, battle-scarred mountain of white dust honeycombed with black trenches, director Lewis Milestone presents the devastating battle as a meaningless sacrifice of hundreds of lives spent in a political game of chicken. Peck leads a terrific cast of young talents and character actors, many of them just starting their respective careers: Rip Torn, Harry Guardino, Martin Landau, Norman Fell, George Peppard, Gavin MacLeod, Bert Remsen, Harry Dean Stanton, plus veteran stalwarts Woody Strode, James Edwards, Robert Blake, and Bob Steele. Milestone had previously directed the pacifist WWI classic All Quiet on the Western Front and the compassionate WWII platoon drama A Walk in the Sun. Pork Chop Hill adds one more antiwar classic to his résumé, the angry power of his drama overcoming the hollow patriotic voice-over (reportedly added by Peck) that concludes the drama. --Sean Axmaker

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Actors: Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Carl Benton Reid
Directors: Lewis Milestone
Writers: James R. Webb, S.L.A. Marshall
Producers: Gregory Peck, Sy Bartlett
Format: Multiple Formats, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles: English, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
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Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Release Date: May 18, 1999
Run Time: 97 minutes
Average Customer Review: 175 customer reviews
ASIN: 0792841662
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,473 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #509 in Movies & TV > DVD > Military & War
- #2928 in Movies & TV > DVD > Action & Adventure
- #5668 in Movies & TV > DVD > Drama

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Korean War masterpiece!

ByR. Edward Merrell, Jr.on November 3, 2014

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This is truly a masterpiece among war films. Director Lewis Milestone completed his trilogy of war films with this one - "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "A Walk in the Sun" were his first two - and they are all masterpieces. And Gregory Peck just exudes military leadership as Lt Joe Clemons, in much the same way he did in "12 O'clock High" as Gen Frank Savage. The story is based on a non-fiction account of the battle by Gen S. L. A. Marshal, who also wrote an exceptionally intelligent screenplay for this film. Peck is supported by a great ensemble cast of actors, most of whom were unknown at the time, but many went on to stardom in the 60s and 70s. They include Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Woody Strode, Norman Fell, Martin Landau, and Robert Blake. George Shibata, who was the first Japanese-American to graduate from West Point and was a veteran of the Korean War, takes a turn at acting as Lt Clemons' second in command and performs superbly. The real Joe Clemons was a military technical advisor for the movie, along with Marshal; and they certainly contributed to making the battle footage some of the most realistic in cinema. The battle took place at the end of the Korean Conflict and the hill really had no tactical value, but its possession provided leverage at the Armistice talks taking place at Panmunjom. The soldiers know they are pawns in the negotiating process and that, plus the intermittent announcements by the communist Chinese over a loudspeaker system, plays w/their minds to the point where their fighting ability is affected. Can Clemons' leadership keep them functioning as a fighting force to capture Pork Chop Hill? Watch it to find out. If you're a fan of war movies, this one (probably the best made about the Korean War) is a must-see. My highest recommendation.

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Great Movie - This BD Version Is Chopped Up

ByCareful Revieweron June 27, 2017

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The movie is excellent. Unfortunately, as with many fake-widescreen movies, the top and bottom of this movie has been dramatically chopped off to simulate widescreen. You are better off with the Universal DVD version if you want to see it as it was originally shown.

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You get Gregory Peck and a quality movie...

ByPatrick Selitrennyon September 21, 2012

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This is by far not a pro-war movie, but rather a very objective view on how the Korean really was. There is no preaching here, no simple propaganda phrases, or exciting and fanatical soldiers.

This is in fact the precursor to anti-war movies that followed in the late sixties and throughout the seventies. But instead of criticizing one specific point, or a set of problems, it just shows the usual day of soldiers and officers sent into a desperate and untenable situation at the front.

The acting is practically perfect. No big drama here. If ever, the drama comes out of the story itself. No theatrics, no gimmick or tricks. Just an honest view on what men in such a situation had to endure and how they eventually managed to deal with it.

It is one of the most brutal and frank depictions shown by a movie of its kind in those days (in late fifties).

Gregory Peck, who is an excellent actor, with a very emblematic deep and theatrical voice, keeps his characterization honest and natural, as an officer forced to send his men out to risk their lives and eventually die, day after day, while peace talks are already taking place at a few miles from "Pork Chop Hill", where the action of this movie is set.

It is a movie well worth watching, or re-watching (in case you already saw it years ago), since every time you watch it, there is something new you may have missed in the previous viewing.

It is a hard movie. No frills, no colors, no spectacular heroics as they were usual in other movies of the time, but in return you get true movie making in a sort of a documentary-style depiction of the horrors of war.

I can absolutely recommend it to anyone who wants to round up his collection of War Movies about the Korean War, since this is certainly one of the most honest ones ever made.

The DVD has no big specials (sorry to say - it would have been nice if they had included at least a documentary about the Korean War, or about this particular action there), but at least the movie seems to have been restored in sight and sound.
For those who prefer to download the video from Amazon.com, I can assure you that what you get on the DVD, you also get by downloading it. Same quality in sight and sound.
Mind you, this is a full screen movie, 4x3 format, not filmed in 1.85:1 as generally assumed, and therefore the framing is correct. It is also in monaural sound, so do not expect it to be expanded. But dialogues are very clear and crisp, and the sound quality throughout is acceptable.

Good and happy viewing...

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A "Must See" war flick

ByBob Milleron March 3, 2016

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I remember watching this with my dad when it was released. I am so glad it has been released in BluRay as it has not lost it's power. Not only is it a great war movie, it also shows how out troops are often caught in the middle of political decisions and suffer while those at the top dicker. I am very happy to add it to my collection, especially since there are so few really good flicks about that "police action" that today's generation knows so little about. I also recommend "Retreat Hell," "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" and "MASH."

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An Excellent film for our most recent "Forgotten War"

ByHistory Fanaticon July 11, 2014

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This was on balance an Excellent War Movie about one of our most recent forgotten wars. It had gritty realism (for its time) in terms of the scenes of battle, the "Talk/Fight" period of the Korean War, the weariness of the Soldiers on Pork Chop and the capriciousness of war in terms of who survived and who did not. The only inaccuracy was the implication that the American Forces fighting under the UN banner held Pork Chop at the end of the battle. In point of fact the Americans quietly withdrew just before the Armistice took effect. To this day it sits on the North Korean side of the DMZ. It is a good movie to disabuse any fool who thinks War is "glorious". Any combat veteran of any war (and I am not one) will tell you that's a crock!