The Hill

There are fine performances from the likes of Sean Connery, Harry Andrews and Michael Redgrave in Sidney Lumet’s drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa., This powerful drama of inhumanity and retribution concerns a group of soldiers, some inmates, some warders, in a military prison, where an imposing man-made hill is used to punish unruly prisoners, who are forced to climb it time after time until they are physically and mentally broken., There are fine performances from all concerned in Sidney Lumet’s drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa, with Sean Connery as the rebellious officer who refuses to obey an order that means certain death., In a British disciplinary camp located in the Libyan desert. Prisoners are made to climb an artificial hill built right in the middle of the camp., There are fine performances from Sean Connery, Harry Andrews and Michael Redgrave in Sidney Lumet’s drama set in a harsh military stockade in WWII Africa., During World War II, incorrigible British soldiers are imprisoned in a military stockade in North Africa, where they suffer brutal treatment at the hands of their fellow countrymen who are attempting to break their spirits through grueling, monotonous and pointless projects.