A military discipline drama, "Take the High Ground" focuses on the mixed fortunes of a young, naive recruit, Merton Tolliver, whose inability to adapt to army life puts him in direct conflict with tough army sergeant, Thorne Ryan. Set during the Korean War, this film has a standard boot camp training narrative, in the same vein of "From Here to Eternity" (also 1953); there is even a love triangle with Ryan and fellow sergeant Laverne Holt. For an air of realism, the filmmakers used actual soldiers in the training drill sequences but the mawkish sentimentality of the script undermines any serious theatrical intentions in favour of a predictable "life lessons" melodrama

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Credits note

Director of photography, John Alton ; film editor, John Dunning ; music composed and conducted by Dimitri Tiomkin

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

Rating: Not rated

LC call number

PN1997

LC item number

.T35 2016

PerformerNote

Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Russ Tamblyn, Carleton Carpenter, Jerome Courtland, Steve Forrest, Robert Arthur

Runtime

101

Technique

live action

Take the high ground!

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