Pork Chop Hill

Just before the American attack on the hill, the commanding officer is pointing out positions on a 3D clay model of the hill with his M4 bayonet.

He lays his bayonet on the table and covers it with a paper map, then steps over to the radio man in conversation.

He then steps back to the map table and the paper map has disappeared.

Real American hand grenades had a narrow yellow band painted around the tapered upper section to quickly identify them as live fragmentation grenades.

However, the grenades in the movie have no such bands, indicating that they are either inert training grenades or movie props.

All of the American officers are wearing their bright rank insignia and Infantry branch insignia.

In reality, officers rarely wore these items in the front lines because they identified those men as leaders, who then became prime targets for the enemy.

Most of the weapons used by both sides do not eject any empty cartridge cases when they are fired.

After he dies (with his eyes open) Coleman blinks three times.

It's the Korean War, Lt. Clemons and his company are ordered to retake from the Chinese a ridge known as Pork Chop Hill, it's a futile exercise as the hill itself has no significant tactical worth.

I read all the reviews and just had to mention (you had to be there to feel the terror). I was lucky enough to survive this and a few other battles.

This is one of my very favourite war films. I count this movie in the same company as "All Quiet On The Western Front" (1930)"The Cruel Sea" (1953) "The Dam Busters" (1955)"Saving Private Ryan" (1998)And "The Thin Red Line" (Also 1998).

Lewis Milestone directed this Korean War story, based on fact and set near the end of the war, where Lt. Joe Clemons(played by Gregory Peck) is ordered to retake an enemy position called Pork Chop Hill(because it resembles an actual pork chop on a map).

Based on a true story, First Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) and Company K of the 31st Infantry are assigned to retake an obscure and ostensibly worthless piece of high-ground in the closing days of the Korean War.

I gave this movie a rave review when I previewed it at a trade screening in 1959, commenting that director Lewis Milestone was still the master of action battle sequences and that the movie was brilliantly photographed by Sam Leavitt, an expert in difficult location cinematography. On a second viewing, however, the movie is not as impressive.

ONCE AGAIN, WE betray our age by reporting that we saw this picture while it was playing during its initial release. The venue was the old Ogden Theatre; which was then located at 63rd Street and Marshfield Avenue in the West Englewood (St.

It's 1953 at the end of the Korean War. Lt.

Plot: As an end to the Korean War is negotiated, US and Chinese troops battle over a hill vital to the negotiationsBased on the non-fiction book by the (in)famous SLA "Slam" Marshall, this is more of a docudrama than a film; therein lies both its success and its failure. Gregory Peck brings conviction to the role of a company commander whose mission is to seize and hold a hill that has just been lost to the enemy.