Pork Chop Hill (film)

For the Korean War battles, see Battle of Pork Chop Hill.
Pork Chop Hill
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLewis Milestone
Screenplay byJames R. Webb
Based onPork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action
1956 novel
by S. L. A. Marshall
Produced bySy Bartlett
StarringGregory Peck
Harry Guardino
Rip Torn
George Peppard
James Edwards
Bob Steele
Woody Strode
George Shibata
CinematographySam Leavitt
Edited byGeorge Boemler
Music byLeonard Rosenman
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 29, 1959 (1959-05-29) (USA)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$ 3 million [1] or $1,750,000[2]
Box office$2.1 million (est. domestic)[3]

Pork Chop Hill is a 1959 American Korean War film starring Gregory Peck, Woody Strode, Rip Torn, and George Peppard. The film, which was the final war film directed by Lewis Milestone, is based upon the 1956 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, George Peppard, 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.

  1. ^ Variety, 5 October 1959 p. 12
  2. ^ Fishgall p 206
  3. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34