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Saturday, June 16, 2012
6:30 pm
PFA Theater

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Gregory Peck: An Agreeable Gentleman
6:30
Pork Chop Hill
Lewis Milestone (U.S., 1959) New Print!

Korea, 1953: while officials gather to negotiate a truce, an American lieutenant (Peck) receives orders to attack Pork Chop Hill. Exposed, outnumbered, and cut off from central command, his company will be decimated in defense of what the negotiators call an “insignificant little hill.” Yet, an exhausted but unwavering Peck tells one of his men, “There’s no use trying to figure it out. You just have to keep on going.” A blunt and brutal assessment of the relationship between strategy and battlefield reality, the film is a monument not to heroism but to persistence in the face of futility. Juliet Clark

Written by James R. Webb, based on a book by S. L. A. Marshall. Photographed by Sam Leavitt. With Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, George Peppard, George Shibata. (97 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Park Circus)

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