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Basics Critics:72Viewers:64Rusty:75
Category: Action/Adventure, Drama, WarNotable as: Action/AdventureSub-Category: War film, Action Film, Action/Adventure, Combat FilmsMain subject: Korean WarNarrative location: South KoreaRuntime: 94 - 98 minutesColor: black-and-whiteLanguage: EnglishCountry: United StatesDirector: Lewis MilestoneScreenwriter: James R. WebbMusic: Leonard RosenmanCinematography: Sam LeavittStars: Woody Strode, Gregory Peck, Gavin MacLeod, James Edwards, Rip Torn, William Wellman Jr., George Peppard, Charles Aidman, Martin Landau Producer: Sy BartlettStudio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, PathéAward details: (details at IMDb)
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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, Gavin MacLeod, and Harry Dean Stanton. It 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.


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