Inchon (1981)
May 4, 1981Release Date
Inchon (1981)
May 4, 1981Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Laurence Olivier
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Jacqueline Bisset
Barbara Hallsworth
Ben Gazzara
Maj. Frank Hallsworth
Richard Roundtree
Sgt. Augustus Henderson
Toshirō Mifune
Saito-San
David Janssen
David Feld
Terence Young
Director
Nam Koong-won
Park
Robin Moore
Writer
Gabriele Ferzetti
Turkish Brigadier
Laird Koenig
Writer
Rex Reed
Longfellow
Paul Savage
Writer
Sabine Sun
Marguerite
Sidney Beckerman
Producer
Dorothy James
Jean MacArthur
Karen Kahn
Lim
Lydia Lei
Mila
James T. Callahan
Gen. Almond
Grace Chan
Ah Cheu
William Dupree
Turkish Sgt
Ed Flanders
President Harry S. Truman (voice)
Omar Sharif
Indian Brigadier
Brian Baek Hwang-gi
Executed Prisoner / Stunts
Won Jin
Evacuee On Bridge / Stunts
Bruce Surtees
Director of Photography
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
Dallas Puett
Editor
Jack Baur
Casting
John W. Holmes
Editor
Pier Luigi Basile
Production Design / Art Direction
Franca Silvi
Assistant Editor
Shigekazu Ikuno
Art Direction
Peter Taylor
Editor
Michael J. Sheridan
Editor
James Devis
Second Unit Director
Mitsuharu Ishii
Producer
Graham Sumner
Property Master
Moon Seon-Myeong
Executive Producer
Matsusaburo Sakaguchi
Associate Producer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 4, 1981
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 20m
Budget$46,000,000
Box Office$5,200,000
Filming LocationsSouth Korea
Genres
Wiki.
Inchon (also stylized as Inchon!) is a 1981 war film about the Battle of Inchon, considered to be the turning point of the Korean War. Directed by Terence Young and financed by Unification movement founder Sun Myung Moon, the film stars Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, who led the United States' surprise amphibious landing at Incheon, South Korea in 1950, with Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune and Richard Roundtree.
Inchon's plot includes both military action and human drama. Characters face danger and are involved in various personal and dramatic situations. The film concludes with the American victory over North Korean forces in the Battle of Inchon, which is considered to have saved South Korea. Produced on $46 million with filming taking place in South Korea, California, Italy, Ireland and Japan, it encountered many problems during production, including a typhoon and the death of a cast member. Both the Unification movement and the United States military provided personnel as extras during the filming.
After premiering in May 1981, the film was released theatrically in the United States and Canada in September 1982, before being quickly withdrawn due to critical and financial failure. Never receiving a home video release, it has occasionally been broadcast on television. It was the largest financial loss in film of 1982, earning less than $2 million against its lofty budget and resulting in losses of around $41 million. Reviewers at the time gave it consistently negative reviews and later commentators including Newsweek, TV Guide and Canadian Press have classed Inchon among the worst films of all time.