How is it possible that such a brilliant, remarkable film won only a handful of awards and has passed into relative obscurity over the years? It includes some of the finest, most committed and powerful acting you will ever see from superb British stalwarts such as Harry Andrews (truly powerful), Sean Connery, Ian Bannen, Michael Redgrave, Ian Hendry (genuinely vicious), Alfred Lynch, et al. Everyone involved is outstanding and it is brilliantly directed. It simply never ceases to amaze me that so few people know of this film. It is deemed so minor that it fails even to get a mention on the page of the IMDb biography for the great Sidney Lumet (http://www.imdb.com/news/ni9436556/) which says it all really yet accurately mirrors the movie's strange obscurity. You won't see many better, more coruscating and more believable films than The Hill. Unquestionably 5-stars.
Review of The Hill
The Hill
(1965)
Brilliantly acted & directed, a searing, 5-star film. Criminally overlooked,
10 April 2011