Review – Pork Chop Hill

Gregory Peck stars in this classic of the “war is hell” action movie sub-genre. In the five-minutes-to-midnight days of the Korean War, infantry units are ordered to attack and re-take the title location. The assault repeatedly runs afoul of bureaucratic foul-ups, with constant emphasis on the fact that in combat government inefficiency and poor planning get soldiers killed. Characters run a range from heroic to let’s-just-get-the-job-done to downright cowardly, reminding us that the men who get stuck in situations like this are human beings. Just about the only real objection I have to this is that the point gets a bit belabored after awhile. Mildly amusing