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1956 Rookie Navy flyers in action over Korea. Released:
1953 Action and romance set in a MASH unit in Korea.
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1956 Based on a true story, a clergyman trains fighter pilots in Korea.
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1954 A reservist pilot is called up to fight in the Korean War.
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1970 It's set
during the Korean War, in a mobile army surgical hospital. But no one
seeing MASH in 1970 confused the film for anything but a caustic comment
on the Vietnam War; this is one of the counterculture movies that
exploded into the mainstream at the end of the '60s. Director Robert
Altman had labored for years in television and sporadic feature work
when this smash-hit comedy made his name (and allowed him to create an
astonishing string of offbeat pictures, culminating in the masterpiece
Nashville). Altman's style of cruel humor, overlapping dialogue, and
densely textured visuals brought the material to life in an all-new kind
of war movie (or, more precisely, antiwar movie). Audiences had never
seen anything like it: vaudeville routines played against spurting
blood, fueled with open ridicule of authority. The cast is led by
Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland, as the outrageous surgeons Hawkeye
Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, with Robert Duvall as the uptight
Major Burns and Sally Kellerman in an Oscar-nominated role as nurse
"Hot Lips" Houlihan. The film's huge success spawned the
long-running TV series, a considerably softer take on the material; of
the film's cast, only Gary Burghoff repeated his role on the small
screen, as the slightly clairvoyant Radar O'Reilly.
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1962 You will never find a more chillingly suspenseful, perversely funny, or viciously satirical political thriller than The Manchurian Candidate, based on the novel by Richard Condon (author of Winter Kills). The film, withheld from distribution by star Frank Sinatra for almost a quarter century after President Kennedy's assassination, has lost none of its potency over time. Former infantryman Bennet Marco (Sinatra) is haunted by nightmares about his platoon having been captured and brainwashed in Korea. The indecipherable dreams seem to center on Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), a decorated war hero but a cold fish of a man whose own mother (Angela Lansbury, in one of the all-time great dragon-lady roles) describes him as looking like his head is "always about to come to a point." Mrs. Bates has nothing on Lansbury's character, the manipulative queen behind her second husband, Senator John Iselin (James Gregory), a notoriously McCarthyesque demagogue. © Amazon.com
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1954 Korean War action on a US aircraft carrier.
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1959 This gritty, grim Korean war drama presents the grueling ordeal of a platoon charged with taking a hill of no military value during the final days of the war. While diplomats and generals argue over peace negotiations (in an appropriately wordless montage under the opening credits), tough but compassionate Lt. Joe Clemons (Gregory Peck) leads a unit of 135 men up a well-guarded hill while miscommunication -and at times no communication- cuts them off from reinforcements and regimental command. Shot against a bleak, battle-scarred mountain of white dust honeycombed with black trenches, director Lewis Milestone presents the devastating battle as a meaningless sacrifice of hundreds of lives spent in a political game of chicken. Peck leads a terrific cast of young talents and character actors, many of them just starting their respective careers: Rip Torn, Harry Guardino, Martin Landau, Norman Fell, George Peppard, Gavin MacLeod, Bert Remsen, Harry Dean Stanton, plus veteran stalwarts Woody Strode, James Edwards, Robert Blake, and Bob Steele. Milestone had previously directed the pacifist WWI classic All Quiet on the Western Front and the compassionate WWII platoon drama A Walk in the Sun. Pork Chop Hill adds one more antiwar classic to his résumé, the angry power of his drama overcoming the hollow patriotic voice-over (reportedly added by Peck) that concludes the drama. © Amazon.com
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1952 US Marines are up against the Chinese at the Changjin Reservoir.
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1951 Sergeant Zack (Gene Evans) is the only survivor after his platoon is executed by North Koreans. He pulls himself along painfully, hands tied behind his back with his own bootlaces, until he is discovered by a 10-year-old South Korean boy. He dubs the boy Short Round, and the two eventually hook up with an infantry squad. They find a Buddhist temple, which they take over to use as an observation post. The squad is a group of misfits: a black medic, a World War II conscientious objector, a Japanese American WWII vet, a mute, and a 90-day-wonder Officer Candidate School grad in charge. The Steel Helmet has a gritty, authentic look that transcends its low budget and occasional staginess; all the GIs have Vaseline smeared on their faces and grimy uniforms. More notable, though, is the lack of propagandizing. "Commies" are mentioned, but anti-Communist rhetoric is not. There's a distinct lack of John Wayne-style heroics in this film, and director Sam Fuller never misses an opportunity to work in his sociopolitical agenda. With a black character who's treated on an equal footing with the white GIs and open references to Jim Crow laws and the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII, it points up why Fuller confounded critics on the Left and Right both. Many of the characters and situations were culled directly from combat vet Fuller's war diaries. Strong, profound stuff for l95l, and a film that will stick in your head for days. Highly recommended for fans of Sam Fuller and war films alike. © Amazon.com
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from Amazon.com: Documentary When North Korea surged across the 38th Parallel into the south on July 25, 1950, it marked the first full-scale confrontation of the cold war. In the years to come, Korea's divided country would became a global political chessboard with the communists backing the offensive North and the U.S. and United Nations supporting the defensive South. What would follow were among the most brutal battles in the history of global warfare: the Pusan Perimeter, the Inchon Invasion, Pork Chop Hill, the Iron Triangle, and Heartbreak Ridge. The Korean War: Fire and Ice,
the four-part History Channel series, explores the historical factors,
political entanglements, and military strategies of this pivotal
struggle in exceptional detail. Rare black-and-white footage is combined
with a diverse and knowledgeable group of veterans to paint a gripping,
complete perspective of the Korean conflict. From its politically
intertwined beginnings through the brutal battles and the unsettling
truce that would leave more than 2 million lives in its wake, the Korea
conflict would set the standards of East and West relations for the next
50 years. In spite of its political, historical, and military
significance, the Korean War remains one of the least examined incidents
in modern warfare. The Korean War: Fire and Ice is an excellent
telling of military history as it was encountered by those who were
there.
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