The Hill

“They went up like men! They came down like animals!”

Joe Roberts (Sean Connery) arrives at a British military prison in North Africa during the Second World War, a soldier with a record and no friends inside. The staff, led by R.S.M. Wilson (Harry Andrews), run the place around a manmade mound of sand that prisoners are made to climb again and again under a white sun. Sidney Lumet keeps the heat on the men's faces, and Roberts has to decide how long he can take it.