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The Hill (1965)
Director: Sidney Lumet
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From Time Out Film Guide
Sean Connery took a break from Bond to give a sterling performance in this awesomely intense drama set in a North African British army camp, where the favourite punishment for prisoners is to send them clambering up and down a man-made hill in the full heat of the day. A lot of screaming and barking issues from the British thesps, and every bead of sweat is visible in Oswald Morris' brilliant monochrome photography. Lumet's strengths (the moral universe as an all-male enclave) and weaknesses (set the volume high, then turn it up higher) are all here. Not for the faint-hearted.Author: DT
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- Garry said...
- Posted on Aug 08 2008 03:36 The Hill should have been the definitive movie statement on military dehumumanisation, if not the whole subject of the system's treatment of it's malcontents. One would be tempted to deem it as such but it's nearest contemporarry Jonas Mekas's "The Brig" and Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" march on the same ground, with more focus and sense of purpose. Nevertheless Lumet's film is a sobering experience, strenghthed by superb photography, art direction, editing and a well placed sense of moral anger. Military sadism still hits the headlines today, and Lumet's tale of how an out of control warder effectively kills an inmate and embarrases the ranks into implementing a cover up has resonance. The outstanding cast are all pretty much faultless and even manage to extract some bleak, even slapstick humour from the acidic script.
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Cast & crew
Director: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Kenneth Hyman
Cast: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear, Jack Watson, Ian Hendry, Michael Redgrave full cast
Duration: 123 mins
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