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The Hill

The Hill

7.5/ 10

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1965

Release Year

123 min

Runtime

Drama
War

Overview

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

Keywords

prison
libya
sadism
africa
world war ii
heat
british army
sahara desert
military prison
punishment
black and white
torture
soldier
cruelty
desert
libyan desert
drill instructor
military
north africa
hill
insubordination
1940s
drill sergeant

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9.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

November 15, 2015

9
9/10

You're a clever bag of tricks, you are, Roberts. Hot and sweaty, bold and brutal, Sidney Lumet's The Hill is a tour de force of incarceration based cinema. Story has five new inmates sent to a North African based British Army Prison, the centre piece of which is a manufactured hill that is used a

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