Take the High Ground! (1953)

Directors

Richard Brooks

Cast

Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Carleton Carpenter

The story

In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, encounter their drill sergeants, SSG Laverne Holt and the deeply troubled SFC Thorne Ryan. After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic training. The two men served together in Korea and are combat veterans.

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