Perhaps the best film of the genre to deal with Korea came at the end of the decade. It was Lewis Milestone’s Pork Chop Hill, based on a real battle during the conflict. This half-cynical, half-heroic account of the fight for a useless piece of hillside, carried out while the cease-fire negotiations that would end the war were taking place, contained a vignette, in which a harassed captain (Gregory Peck) says to a bleeding and wounded GI about to set off on some self-imposed heroic mission, “Who the hell do you think you are — Audie Murphy, eh?”
