The Hill is a 1965 British-American prison drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. Set in an army prison in North Africa at the end of the Second World War. Stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear and Michael Redgrave.
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The Hill is a 1965 British-American prison drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, set in an army prison in North Africa at the end of the Second World War. It stars Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Ossie Davis, Ian Hendry, Alfred Lynch, Roy Kinnear and Michael Redgrave. It includes focus upon pointless punishment simply to break the human spirit and in particular echoes the punishments of Mauthausen concentration camp of WW2. There is only one line in the film which indicates that the war is on: where the commandant suggests that Roberts wishes to stay in prison \”for the rest of the war\”. When one dies, a power struggle erupts between brutal Staff Sergeant Williams, humane Staff Sergeant Harris, Regimental Sergeant Major Wilson and the camp’s medical officer as they struggle to run the camp in conflicting styles.
The film was based on a screenplay by Ray Rigby, who had spent time in military prison and wrote for TV and TV. The original draft was 100 pages long but Lumet cut out around 100 pages of material before filming. It’s all a group of men, all a jail and all a prison group of prisoners, said Lumet – it isn’t a story about prisoners, it’s a story of people. The Hill is out now on Blu-ray and DVD.
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