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22 June 1965 (Denmark)
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Tagline:
They went up like men! They came down like animals!
Plot:
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards. full summary | add synopsis
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Exhaustion
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Awards:
Won BAFTA Film Award.
Another 3 wins
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6 nominations
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(2 articles)
TCM Alert! Sean Connery In "The Hill" Tonight
(From CinemaRetro. 22 May 2009, 1:18 PM, PDT)
Actor Ossie Davis Dies at 87
(From IMDb News. 4 February 2005)
(From CinemaRetro. 22 May 2009, 1:18 PM, PDT)
Actor Ossie Davis Dies at 87
(From IMDb News. 4 February 2005)
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Sean Connery's finest hour?
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Cast
(Complete credited 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 (as Sir Michael Redgrave) |
| Norman Bird | ... | Commandant |
| Neil McCarthy | ... | Burton |
| Howard Goorney | ... | Walters |
| Tony Caunter | ... | Martin |
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123 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:X (original rating) |
USA:Approved (certificate #20843) |
USA:TV-14 (TV rating)
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In Sidney Lumet's autobiography "Making Movies", the director recalled suffering through the horrendous heat of the location and asking Sean Connery if he was urinating at all, to which Connery's reply was "Only in the morning".
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Continuity: When Ossie Davis strips to his shorts, the style of shorts changes from the time he leaves the cell block to the time he gets to the commandant's office.
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Quotes:
Regimental Sergeant Major Bert Wilson:
I'm running this place! Me! I'll say what goes and what don't go!
Sergeant Charlie Harris: You ain't running this place, Bert, WILLIAMS is! Look at him! He took over days ago! You STILL haven't caught on!
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Sergeant Charlie Harris: You ain't running this place, Bert, WILLIAMS is! Look at him! He took over days ago! You STILL haven't caught on!
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Referenced in Sean Connery 1971: The BBC Interview (2006) (V)
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In which Connery doesn't get to cop off with the customary harem of beach babes, doesn't get to save the world and more importantly gets his butt kicked by Ian Hendry! Sidney Lumet seasons Ray Rigby's claustrophobic screenplay with some stunning black and white cinematography (reminiscent of his earlier masterpiece '12 Angry Men') and then bakes it in about 6 million degrees of scorching desert sun. The story of five squaddies holed up in a military stockade at the tail end of WW11 is as preoccupied with examining political conflict within British society (through the interactions of the microcosmic cell mates) as it is with presenting a taut, compelling psychodrama. The allegorical tone of the movie is never clumsy or heavy handed though and Lumet keeps the narrative on the rails every step of the way. The dialogue crackles with blunt barrack room banter and black humour throughout perfectly offsetting the grim circumstances the prisoners find themselves in. Roy Kinnear, Ossie Davis and Ian Hendry (as a deranged martinet of a prison guard) all deserve special mention but the film surely belongs to Connery who stumbles 'bruised, battered and scarred but hard' through to the bitter climax with an extraordinary kind of dignity as he rails against the brutal injustices of 'the system'! It is a truly unmissable picture if only for Connerys' star turn but don't take my word for it. Check it out now.