SNIPERS RIDGE 1961This low budget film starts out 48 hours before the cease fire that would end the Korean War. Jack Ging is a NCO with an infantry company facing the Chinese Red Army.
Not exactly buried treasure, but worth a look A while back I was channel surfing late at night/early in the morning and landed on AMC showing something I'd never heard of called SNIPER'S RIDGE (1961). It's a very low-budget Fox B movie, a sub-WAR HUNT Korean War chatfest with C-list TV actors like Jack Ging and Douglas Henderson.
For the most part this low budget war drama is nothing more than routine. The story of a Corporal that has more guts than brains and more guts than his superiors.
An unrelentingly grim and emotional Korean War drama, Sniper's Ridge is a tidy piece of work, well-directed by John Bushelman, it gives a nice sense of how confining war can be; accustomed as moviegoers are to vast beaches and endless jungles, this film paints a more accurate portrait of war, as small, remote and cramped, with men scurrying in and out of ditches and bunkers like rats.
As the Korean War is down to its last days before the armistice, a captain orders his men on a meaningless and dangerous night time mission. Since the men and the captain all know that the war is going to be over, the mission assignment causes a lot of friction which is displayed in several dramatic confrontations between the members of the platoon and the captain.
Saying that Sniper's Ridge is just a poor man's version of Pork Chop Hill is not to denigrate this film, but merely to point out it's a B film. Sniper's Ridge is the kind of B film that used to fill out the bottom part of a double feature back in the day when they had double features.
Little known but highly effective anti-war movie set in no-mans land around the 38th parallel in Korea in late July 1953.With the agreed upon armistice, by the UN and Communist forces, to go into effect within 48 hours the Communist Chinese troops launch a deadly daylight attack on the troops along what's called Sniper's Ridge.
Copyright 27 January 1961 by Associated Producers, Inc. Released through 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.
