Pork Chop Hill

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. Armys 7th Infantry Division, and Chinese and North Korean forces in April 1953.

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, onlyof a 135man unit are left. They prepare for a largescale Chinese counterattack which they know will overwhelm and kill them in vicious fire fights and handtohand fighting while the Panmunjeom ceasefire negotiations continue.Higher command is shown as being unwilling to either abandon or reinforce the hill. They will not reinforce the hill because the value of the hill is not worth further losses. They will not abandon the hill because it is a point of negotiation in the ceasefire talks. ........

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