Take the High Ground!
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#1953_films
#English-language_films
#American_films
#Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer_films
#1950s_English-language_films
#Films_scored_by_Dimitri_Tiomkin
#Films_directed_by_Richard_Brooks
#Korean_War_films
#Films_shot_in_El_Paso,_Texas
#American_war_films
Take the High Ground! is a 1953 American war film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden as drill sergeants who must transform a batch of everyday civilians into soldiers during the Korean War.
In May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, encounter their drill sergeants, SSG. Laverne Holt （Karl Malden） and the deeply troubled SFC. 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.
The two men served together in Korea and are combat veterans; Ryan, though, resents his stateside duty and repeatedly applies for a transfer back to the Korean front.
One night, the men cross the border to Mexico for recreation.
In a bar, Ryan and Holt see a beautiful woman, Julie Mollison （Elaine Stewart）, buying drinks for a group of young recruits, including some of their own.
Later that evening, the two sergeants escort the inebriated Julie to her apartment, and Ryan finds himself drawn to her.
Training becomes more intensive.
Ryan exposes his men to tear gas to prepare them for the harsh conditions of battle.
Ryan and Holt return to the bar one night, and find Julie sitting alone.
When the crude MSG. Vince Opperman （Bert Freed） insults Julie, she runs out of the bar in tears, and Holt comforts her.
Ryan and Opperman fight, and Opperman reveals that Julie was married to a soldier who was killed in Korea shortly after she left him.
One day, recruit Lobo Naglaski （Steve Forrest） visits the camp chaplain to confess his murderous feelings toward Ryan, but comes to see that the serge...
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