Lionsgate has announced that Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge – starring Andrew Garfield is to be released in the UK on January 27th.
Starring alongside Garfield is a fine cast of actors such as Vince Vaughn, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Hugo Weaving and Rachel Griffiths as well as directed by Mel Gibson.
Synopsis
HACKSAW RIDGE is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (BAFTA winner and Golden Globe nominee Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without a weapon, as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic, he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honour.
