American troops fighting in Korea capture a strategically vital hill, but have difficulty defending it against enemy counter-attacks - and when reinforcements arrive, their numbers are too few to make much difference. Drama, starring Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn, Woody Strode and George Peppard.

Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.