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The Hill

United Kingdom

1965-06-11(US)
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Drama,
War
▪ 2h-3m

75^%

User
Score

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.

Sidney LumetDirector
Ray RigbyScreenplay
Ray RigbyTheatre Play
R.S. AllenTheatre Play
Kenneth HymanProducer
Oswald MorrisDirector of Photography

Top Billed Cast

Sean Connery

Joe Roberts

Harry Andrews

R.S.M. Wilson

Ian Bannen

Harris

Alfred Lynch

George Stevens

Ossie Davis

Jacko King

Roy Kinnear

Monty Bartlett

Jack Watson

Jock McGrath

Ian Hendry

Staff Sergeant Williams

Michael Redgrave

The Medical Officer

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A review by John Chard

9.0

Written by John Chard on 2024-05-16

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....

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