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Take the High Ground! is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Brooks released in USA on 30 october 1953 with Richard Widmark

Take the High Ground! (1953)

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Take the High Ground!
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Released in USA 30 october 1953
Length 1h41
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    War,    Comedy
Rating59% 2.9996852.9996852.9996852.9996852.999685

Take the High Ground! is a film about the Korean War, starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden as drill instructors who must transform a batch of everyday civilians into soldiers. The film was directed by
Richard Brooks.

Synopsis

In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas encounter their drill sergeants, Sgt. Laverne Holt (Karl Malden) and the tough-as-nails Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Richard Widmark). After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic training. Ryan, a combat veteran who resents his stateside duty, repeatedly applies for a transfer back to the Korean front.

Actors

Richard Widmark

(Sgt. Thorne Ryan)Karl Malden

(Sgt. Laverne Holt)Elaine Stewart

(Julie Mollison)Russ Tamblyn

(Paul Jamison)Carleton Carpenter

(Merton "Tex" Tolliver)
And :
Steve Forrest
Jerome Courtland
Regis Toomey
Robert Arthur
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