Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
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.
- prison
- libya
- sadism
- africa
- world war ii
- heat
- british army
- sahara desert
- military prison
- punishment
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ossie Davis — Jacko King
- Roy Kinnear — Monty Bartlett
- Jack Watson — Jock McGrath
- Ian Hendry — Staff Sergeant Williams
- Michael Redgrave — The Medical Officer
- Norman Bird — Commandant
- Neil McCarthy — Burton
- Howard Goorney — Walters
- Tony Caunter — Martin
- James Payne — Man in Prison (uncredited)
- Directed
- Sidney Lumet
- Written
- Ray Rigby
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 255 ratings
- Studio
- Seven Arts Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
