Pork Chop Hill (1959)

Directors

Lewis Milestone

Cast

Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, George Shibata, Woody Strode, Norman Fell, Cliff Ketchum, Robert Blake

The story

In April 1953, during the Korean War, K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, under the command of Lieutenant Joe Clemons, is assigned to recapture Pork Chop Hill from a larger Chinese People's Volunteer Army force. Clemons leads 2nd Platoon, while putting his friend and Executive Officer, Lieutenant Tsugio Ohashi in charge of 1st Platoon, while 3rd Platoon is kept as a reserve. They succeed in taking the hill, trench by trench, but at the cost of high casualties.

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