Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6762 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-06-22
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 78 minutes

Synopsis
It's the Korean War and a patrol is lost behind enemy lines. With no way of communicating with their HQ the men have to face the stark possibility that they may never get back...

Customer Reviews

A long time being released to DVD
Although not on a par with Pork Chop Hill this is a much underated British film with an excellent cast. It is one of the great crop of outstanding British War films from the 50's. Korea is an almost unknown war to many and although set in the Korean War the film concentrates very much on the interaction between the characters in the cut off British Patrol. It shows the difficulties of leadership in such situations and also the fact that teamwork under stress is vitally important. It also is at pains to point out that most British soldiers who fought in Korea were National Servicemen. Overall an excellent film, highly recommended.

Korean curio
'A Hill in Korea' is mainly of interest as one of the few British films set in the Korean War, and even then it missed the boat by three years, as the war ended in 1953. Apart from the unfamiliar setting (with US Shooting Star aircraft and, bizarrely, a Cromwell tank rustled up by the Chinese PLA) it's otherwise a pretty average 50s war film, with the usual stock characters: the Cockney Jewish wide boy, the wet National Service lieutenant, the hysterical coward, Stanley Baker as the scowling hard man and Harry Andrews doing his trademark stolid NCO turn (see 'Ice Cold in Alex', 'The Hill' etc), which he could do in his sleep. One disconcerting feature of the film is that the cast appear 15-20 years older than the National Servicemen they were supposedly playing; only a very young Michael Caine seems to be the right age, and he shows no inkling of the promise to come.