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Download Hindi Movie Pork Chop Hill
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American GI's must retake a barren hill in Korea that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops. The ensuing battle becomes a meat grinder for American and Chinese alike. This story of a an actual battle is all grit.
Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying to bring the conflict to a negotiated end, Lt. Joe Clemons is ordered to launch an attack and retake Pork Cop Hill. It's tough on the soldiers who know that the negotiations are under way and no one wants to die when they think it will all soon be over. The hill is of no particular strategic military value but all part of showing resolve during the negotiations. Under the impression that the battle has been won, battalion headquarters orders some of the men withdrawn when in fact they are in dire need of reinforcements and supplies. As the Chinese prepare to counterattack and broadcast propaganda over loudspeakers, the men prepare for what may be their last battle.
This, despite its weaknesses, is quite a good movie. There is little sentimentality and no romance. It's all dust and death on both sides, the dwindling American force commanded by Gregory Peck and the Communist Chinese enemy.
It's based on S. L. A. Marshall's book of the same name, which focused, as does the film, on small-scale operations while not ignoring the larger picture. The larger picture is roughly this. Pork Chop Hill is a salient in the dividing line between two opposing armies and the cease fire is about to be signed at Panmunjom. In itself it is of no military importance, and all logic -- not just military reasoning but common sense -- dictates that the cease-fire line be straightened out and the hill ignored. Instead, both sides pour troops onto this insignificant little mountain, denuded of vegetation by long bombardment, a heap of rocky rubble laced with trenches.
It's sometimes said that Gregory Peck is a wooden actor and I guess I'd agree he's nobody's idea of Cary Grant when it comes to light comedy. His specialty lay in radiating an understated sincerity and leadership quality. He never pulled it off in a mechanical way either. There were always at least a few lines in which we recognized the human being behind the mask, and that's the case here. When he's handed an order that means he must send back his recently arrived, desperately needed reinforcements, he pauses and says quietly, "Well, they can't mean this," and we believe that he believes that they can't mean this. The rest of the cast has many familiar faces and none of them let the film down. One scene is perhaps the best that Harry Guardino has left on celluloid. The very air of the movie seems filled with fear, sweat, and dust.
But then there are the weaknesses. Marshall's book was unforgiving. When the higher echelons screwed up, Marshall noted it just as matter-of-factly as he noted the number of rounds expended by a given platoon during a given incident. In this film, somebody makes a mistake and turns on the searchlights at the wrong time. It's quickly corrected and the miscreants later explain that they mixed up Peck's unit with another -- and they apologize! And that's about it as far as errors on our side go. The later contretemps that deprive Peck of reinforcements and supplies are due to an unavoidable failure in communication, so it's nobody's fault.
Then there's the "Here comes the cavalry!" ending, which didn't happen, according to Marshall's book, if I remember it correctly. And sometimes the script spells things out in an unnecessary way. Guardino's friend is killed and Peck has to drag him away from the body, while he screams, "He was my BUDDY." Well -- we know that. It's already been demonstrated. So to whom is that line addressed? Audience members who don't know that stress generates fierce friendships?
And there's a final, even more unsettling failure to stand back from events and view them objectively, an unwillingness or inability to step outside the box. We see the Peace Talks taking place. The representative for our side explains to the Chinese, "According to the truce, Pork Chop Hill is right in the middle of the truce zone. You know it has no value so why don't you withdraw your men?" (The Chinese negotiator turns down his ear plug.) The Allied negotiators step outside and mutter angrily that the Chinese just don't want to lose the hill for symbolic reasons.
Well, what kind of cockeyed moral calculus is this? Isn't OUR side equally willing to sacrifice lives for the symbolic value of the hill? If the reasoning of the Chinese is wrong, isn't our reasoning, which is precisely the same, equally wrong? Soccer riots are better justified.
Enough preaching. This is one tough film. Despite the injections from Hollywood of the 1950s, we get a convincing picture of what combat is like. Death comes almost at random, and it's not always pretty. Bodies don't always have neat bullet holes through the shoulder. Sometimes they're visibly mangled, although the visuals aren't in any way offensive. And Peck does a superb job. So this is well worth seeing.
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. Theodore Parish), Chicago, Illinois.
BEING IN JUNIOR High School and 12 years old, we tended to view it as just another War Picture; albeit one about the "Korean Police Action, rather than World War II. It probably didn't rate with the more action oriented matinée fodder such as American-International's HELL SQUAD and TANK BATALLION; which played on a double bill at the very same picture show.
BUT WHEN ONE revisits the film, as we just did thanks to Turner Classic Movies, we find a very different picture, indeed. To begin with, we have a story based on the true incident of the Korean War, that wastes no time in getting things moving and makes its 97 minute running time go by in a seeming instant.
IT WAS THE product of star Gregory Peck's own Melville Productions and Mr. Peck is the only actor of "Star Status" to appear. That is not to say that the cast was not talent laden; for it certainly was that, having assembled a group of supporting players who were either established veterans or young pups, who were on their way up the ladder.
EVEN A QUICK GLANCE over the roster would leave even the casual movie buff impressed. The list contains names such as: Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, James Edwards, Bob Steele, Woody Strode, Norman Fell, George Shibata, Robert Blake, Ken Lynch, Abel Fernandez, Gavin Mac Cloud, Martin Landau, Harry Dean Stanton, Clarence Williams III and many others.
ONE PARTICULAR INCIDENT in the story concerned Private Franklin (Woody Strode), who is given to a touch of fearful apprehension about being in combat and feigns injury in order to escape the front and return to the rear echelon. Lt. Clemons (Gregory Peck) recognizes the situation and forces Franklin into service. Franklin's behavior continues that way until he is a candidate for a firing squad.
BUT, THE LEVEL headed Lieutenant uses some psychology and Franklin redeems himself, serves honorably & even heroically.* THE FILM IS the story of one incident at the last days of the Korean War. Pork Chop Hill offers no advantage to either side, military or otherwise. But its 'importance' lies in the fact that it is there and it becomes a sort of symbol of just how far the negotiating sides (the United Nations forces and the Communist Chinese) would go in securing a truce.
SURELY MANY WOULD argue about the classification of PORK CHOP HILL as a film genre. Some say it's a war film, whereas others just as vehemently argue that its 'message' is one of anti-war.
WE TEND TO agree with neither as the sentiments of author, producer/star Gregory Peck and Director Lewis Milestone; whom all would agree. It's just a story about the horrors of war, all war. And that really has nothing to do with political belief; although it is usually the pols who get us into these things!
TO SUM IT all up, we quote U.S. Army Civil General, William Tecumseh Sherman who so eloquently stated: "War is Hell!"
SO BE IT!!
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