Pork Chop Hill: Living or Dead?

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By Andrew Droid Webber

Updated 18 March 2023

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Artist	Jac. de Nijs / Anefo
Credit	Nationaal Archief
License	cc-by-sa-3.0-nl
Desc	George Peppard (Engelse filmacteur) op Schiphol 25 februari 1964
Usage	Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 nl

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1959 film by Lewis Milestone

Pork Chop Hill

Released	1959 (63 years, 3 months ago)

Director	Lewis Milestone
Duration	94 minutes
Genre	war film and film adaptation
Composer	Leonard Rosenman
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Pathé
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	James R. Webb
Producer	Sy Bartlett

About Pork Chop Hill

For the Korean War battles, see Battle of 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. 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, Abel Fernandez, Gavin MacLeod, Harry Dean Stanton, and Clarence Williams III. It is 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.