into the picture. While that claim stands as unconfirmed, the film does show signs of post-production editing, with segments of several excised scenes showing up under the main title credits. Milestone's version reportedly featured more cross cutting between the fighting and the peace conference and made Peck's character less of a conventional hero. The director says it also featured more scenes involving the Chinese. Release The film opened in Chicago and Detroit in the week ended May 26, 1959. It opened at the Roxy Theatre in New York City on May 29 and became number one in the US. The film was a minor box office hit. Critical response The New York Times applauded the film's "grim and rugged" style, the way it captured the "resentment" of the American GIs, and how it "tacitly points the obsoleteness of ground warfare". See also List of American films of 1959 References Notes External links 1959 films 1959 war films American war films Korean War films Films scored by Leonard Rosenman Films directed by Lewis Milestone American black-and-white films Films based on non-fiction books Films set in 1953 Films set in South Korea Films shot in California War epic films United Artists films United States in the Korean War Films set in Gyeonggi Province 1950s English-language films 1950s American films