The Angry Hills

The Angry Hills (1959)

The amazing adventures of a lone American in a land of violence!

In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.

Date of release
1959-07-29
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (20)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Drama, War, Thriller
Director
Robert Aldrich

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Greece

The Angry Hills is a 1959 American-British war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Robert Mitchum, Stanley Baker and Elisabeth Müller. It is based on the novel by Leon Uris.

Production

Uris' novel was published in 1955. Because of its Greek setting, Uris was hired to write the screenplay for Boy on a Dolphin.

Film rights were bought by Raymond Stross in England, who said he wanted Clark Gable for the lead. Stross eventually set up the film with MGM and New York's Cine World Productions, and announced Robert Mitchum would star. According to Mitchum, Alan Ladd was meant to play the lead but the producers drove out to Ladd's house and met him after "he'd just crawled out of his swimming pool and was all shrunken up like a dishwasher's hand.

Pier Angeli was wanted for the female lead. Elizabeth Mueller was cast instead.

Leon Uris did the first draft of the screenplay. However Aldrich had it rewritten by A.I. Bezzerides, who had written Kiss Me Deadly for Aldrich.

The film was shot from June to December 1958 with location shooting in Greece and interiors at MGM-British Studios.

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