26 Aug Pork Chop Hill
Pork Chop Hill, Korean War movie starring Gregory Peck
(1959) Pork Chop Hill is about one battle fought in 1953, at the end of the Korean War while the U.S. was negotiating an armistice with the Communist Chinese and North Koreans.
At the beginning of the movie, the credits read that “This is a true story, based on the book by Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall, USAR. In most cases not even the names of the people have been changed.”
Ever since I did my little bit of research about the death of my uncle Ace Allen, I thought I wanted to learn more, watch more movies, read more about the Korean War.
Other well-known stars made appearances. Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, Norman Fell, Robert Blake, Martin Landau, Gavin MacLeod. I had a hard time picking them out. It was all about Mr. Peck.
For all these reasons … it’s a true story, my uncle fought there, Gregory Peck was the star with lots of others for backup … I wanted to like the movie.
I didn’t. Half way through I just wanted to fast forward to get to the end which was, thank goodness, the best part of the film. It was too choppy. I wanted more story, less shelling, less death.
But come to think of it, the man who wrote the book wrote about what he saw there.
No story. More shelling. Mostly death.
We can never thank our veterans enough.
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