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All the Young Men is a 1960 American Korean War feature film directed by Hall Bartlett and starring Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier dealing with desegregation in the United States Marine Corps. Poitier plays a sergeant unexpectedly placed in command of the survivors of a platoon in the Korean War.
All the Young Men: Directed by Hall Bartlett. With Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Glenn Corbett. During the Korean War, a platoon leader dies, leaving his inexperienced black Sergeant in charge of his squad of belligerent and racist white men.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Hall Bartlett
- 1960-08-26
While fighting in the Korean War, a Marine lieutenant is killed, leaving Sgt. Eddie Towler (Sidney Poitier) in charge. However, since Towler is black, he faces resistance from some of the men ...
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- Hall Bartlett
- War
- Alan Ladd
All The Young Men. A Marine platoon of 45 men is ordered to hold a mountain pass near Wosan early in the Korean War, when Chinese Communists were swarming all over MacArthur's tiny army.
A Korean War film starring Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier, who plays a black sergeant leading a platoon of white Marines. The film explores the racial integration of the American military and the challenges faced by the sergeant and his men.
Instead, All the Young Men uses the war genre to take a stand on racial integration. Sidney Poitier stars as Sgt. Eddie Towler, who is part of an advance Marine unit assigned to find and secure a farm located in a strategic mountain pass.
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All the Young Men is a film about a marine patrol in Korean War where the lieutenant in charge is killed in the first couple of minutes of the film. His last words are to tell the sergeant that he's now in charge, to complete a mission by taking a strategic farm house.