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11/06/1965 Drama, War 2h 3m
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They went up like men! They came down like animals!

Overview

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

  1. Sidney Lumet

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Sean Connery

    Joe Roberts

  2. Harry Andrews

    R.S.M. Wilson

  3. Ian Bannen

    Harris

  4. Alfred Lynch

    George Stevens

  5. Ossie Davis

    Jacko King

  6. Roy Kinnear

    Monty Bartlett

  7. Jack Watson

    Jock McGrath

  8. Ian Hendry

    Staff Sergeant Williams

  9. Michael Redgrave

    The Medical Officer

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2015-11-15
You're a clever bag of tricks, you are, Roberts.

Hot and sweaty, bold and brutal, Sidney Lumet's The Hill is a tour de force of incarceration based cinema. Story has five new inmates sent to a North African based British Army Prison, the centre piece of which is a manufactured hill that is used as a punishment tool. The new recruits, headed by Joe Roberts (Sean Connery), quickly fall foul of the superiors, especially the venomous Staff Sergeant Williams (Ian Hendry), but these boys wont take it lying down...

With no music and Oswald Morris' monochrome photography ensuring atmosphere is p...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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