HAMBURGER HILL DVDRIP (1987)

Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war film about the actual assault of the
U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, part of the 101st
Airborne Division 'Screaming Eagles', on a well-fortified position, including
trenchworks and bunkers, of the North Vietnamese Army on Ap Bia Mountain near
the Laotian border. American military records of the battle refer to the
mountain as 'Hill 937', its map designation derived from its being 937 meters high.

The series of assaults (which resulted in heavy casualties to the American forces)
commenced on May 10, 1969, with the hill finally being taken on May 20.

The film portrays fighting, combat, courage, camaraderie and dedication to the
mission among troops. It also brings up painful questions about the Vietnam War,
such as the stigmatizing of replacement troops ("newbies" or, more crudely, "FNGs",
for "Fuckin' New Guys") and of the seeming caprice of high command in the conflict,
specifically the lack of strategic value of the hill and subsequent unnecessary
casualties. Other issues include the effect of anti-war sentiment on morale, and
racial tensions among troops (especially the overcoming of racial tension by
gradual friendship and earned respect).

Written by James Carabatsos and directed by John Irvin, the film starred Dylan
McDermott, Steven Weber, Courtney B. Vance, Don Cheadle and Michael Boatman. The
novelization was written by William Pelfrey. Set in May 1969 during the Vietnam
War, the movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures, which had only theatrical
rights to the film, whereas the video rights were owned by Vestron Video, and in
later years by Live Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, and Lions Gate
Entertainment (which also recently acquired the UK video rights with distribution
by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment). However, Paramount Television's successor
CBS Television Distribution continues to distribute the film on TV.

One aspect of the war portrayed is how the soldiers in the field felt betrayed by
people back in the United States, particularly college students. In one scene a
soldier gets a letter from his girlfriend saying she will not keep writing because
her college friends told her it was immoral. In another scene, Sgt. Worchester
(played by Steven Weber) from the Southern United States says that when he got home
he faced discrimination for being a veteran. When he got off the plane, hippies gave
him and his fellow soldiers bags of dog feces. When he got to his house, his wife was
sleeping with another man. None of this bothered him until he discovered that his
local bartender had lost his son in the battle of the Ia Drang Valley and was sent
home in "a rubber bag with 'members missing' labeled on it." To make it worse,
college students kept phoning him saying they were glad his son was killed by
"the heroic people's army", causing the bartender to start using heroin. This event
caused Worchester to sign up for another tour in Vietnam.

The Animals' song We Gotta Get out of This Place is also featured in this film.

Directed by: John Irvin
Produced by: Jerry Offsay
Written by: James Carabatsos
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Steven Weber, Courtney B. Vance, Don Cheadle, Michael Boatman
Music by : Philip Glass
Cinematography: Peter MacDonald
Editing by : Peter Tanner
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures (theatrical only)
Release date(s): August 28, 1987
Running time: 112 min.
Country: The United States of America
Language; English



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