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Take the High Ground!: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Richard Widmark, Karl Malden, Elaine Stewart, Carleton Carpenter. In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.
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- Drama, War
- Richard Brooks
- 1953-10-30
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.
Richard Widmark ... Sgt. Thorne Ryan: Karl Malden ... Sgt. Laverne Holt: Elaine Stewart ... Julie Mollison: Carleton Carpenter ... Merton 'Tex' Tolliver: Russ Tamblyn ... Paul Jamison: Jerome Courtland ... Elvin C. Carey: Steve Forrest ... Lobo Naglaski: Robert Arthur ...
Take the High Ground (1953), a Korean War picture starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden, is one of the more common types - one where everyday civilians are methodically transformed into real soldiers.
- Richard Brooks, Jack Aldworth, Jerry Thorpe
- Maurice Jara
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Richard Weedt Widmark (December 26, 1914 – March 24, 2008) was an American film, stage, and television actor and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as the villainous Tommy Udo in his debut film, Kiss of Death (1947), for which he also won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.
An interesting Korean-War era film, starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden, Take the High Ground depicts sixteen weeks of basic training at Fort Bliss.
