Watch Pork Chop Hill For Free

Excellent adaptation.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

There are many war films, and yeah, there are both good ones and poor ones. This one, made in 1959 by Martin Landau and starring Gregory Peck is somewhere in the midst still leaning more to a weaker side. Why? It seems a cool winning formula - to depict a heroic Hill assault, long charge and then a long defense of the Hill. Yeah, but in reality the film is just one long, terribly slow battle scene that is getting tedious already after 30 minutes. Another obvious detail is that actors seemingly perform with a certain effort as if they were forced or simply do not enjoy their lines. It all seems to be one languid, idle and slow pacing attack that is a big bore and a huge yawn. The Longest Day, being made several years after this one, at least has a huge asset - psychological development of many heroes. Here we see caricature schematic Koreans, endless fight and idle remarks. Nice but passable

PORK CHOP HILL is a standard black and white American war movie of the 1950s. This one's headlined by Gregory Peck who immediately lifts the proceedings a couple of notches with his carefully mannered performance. The story is very simplistic, involving the taking and re-taking of an otherwise insignificant hill from the Chinese during the Korean War, but on the other hand the pace is very fast and the story packed to the brim with battle action.Usually films in this genre take time out to introduce the characters via chit-chat and training, but not so here. We're in the thick of the action from the beginning and it stays that way until the very end. The cast is star-studded, featuring such notables as Woody Strode, Rip Torn, and George Peppard, and the battle scenes emphasis the humanity of the situation; they're quite small scale, but as a plus this makes them claustrophobic. The film is also heavy on the ordinance, making it an explosive journey.

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). Trouble is, morale is uneasy because the war may be coming to an end soon, and nobody wants to be the last soldier killed in this war, especially when the hill in question is of little military value, it would be just to show the Chinese, American resolve. Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, and George Peppard costar. Insightful and intelligent war story with good acting and direction. Some editing is a bit ragged, but otherwise compelling.

***SPOILERS*** Non stop action war movie that never lets up for a moment as the US Army and Chinese Communists square off on hill 255 also known as Pork Chop Hill in the spring of 1953. With peace or cease fire negotiations going nowhere at Panmujeom the Red Chinese open up a full scale attack, using ear splitting bugles and human wave assaults, on Pork Chop Hill trying to dislodge the US Army company, Company K, that's holding it. With the battered and pot marked, from artillery shelling, hill being of no real strategic significance to either sides it turns out to be a battle of wills between the two side with the Chinese Communists more then willing to sacrifice their men in order to win!With Lt. Joe Celmons', Gregory Peck, company trying to hold off the fanatical and suicidal Red Chinese attacks it's decided by his superiors safely behind the lines not to reinforce him and thus let him and his men, now down from 135 to just 25 men, to twist in the wind with the Red Chinese planning to launch a final do or die attack on his positions at dusk April 17, 1953. Digging in and waiting for the final curtain to fall Let. Clemons feels that he and his men have been deserted or sacrificed for political expediency in the name of "peace" in order to get the stalled cease fire talks re-started! Where at least with the Communist Chinese their losses will be rewarded with taking the hill, Pork Chop Hill, and using it as a bargaining chip in the Panmunjeom cease fire negations!One of he best movies about the Korean War ever made "Pork Chop Hill" shows the frustration that the GI's suffered in fighting in it. Like in the film there was no hope of winning on the part of the US with the war being fought mostly along the 38th Parallel with the front lines moving no more then ten miles on either direction for more then, From May 1951 to July 1953, two years! Gregory Peck who made only two war movies up until then as a Russian guerrilla fighter in "Days of Glory" in 1943 and a US Army Air Force General in "12 O'Clock high" in 1949 fits right in the part as a grunt down in the mud GI in the film who's sense of loyalty to is country made him forget that it was deserting him and his men at their most argent time of need. Happily the ending of the movie like the battle of "Pork Chop Hill" in real life restored Lt. Clemons' faith in his country even though most of the men under his command didn't live long enough to see or realize it! P.S One of the oddest as well as poignant scenes in the film was just before the final assault on the hill by the Red Chinese. That's when their radio propagandist commentator started playing the song "Autumn in New York", this in the spring in Korea, just in order to fry the GI's brains in order to get them to surrender.