Take the High Ground!
From its rowdy, ribald horse-play, to its rousing marching song... from its hard-boiled hates and slugging feuds to its tough-but tender love story... this is a drama of our times... exciting, exalting, young, brave and alive!
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- Drama
- Comedy
- War
Overview
Sgt. Thorne Ryan, who once fought bravely in Korea, now serves as a hard-nosed drill instructor to new Army recruits at Fort Bliss, Texas. But is he really the man he is often described as? His fellow instructor, and friend helps him to face the ghosts of his past experiences in Korea. One night in a bar across the border in Juarez, Mexico, Sgt. Ryan meets a lady who begins to turn his life around. Will this be enough to help him deal with the past? Or will he continue to be so hard on his troops?
Keywords
- drill instructor
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 30, 1953
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cast
- Gordon Jones,Don Haggerty,Robert Arthur,John Close,Acquanetta,Lester Dorr,Jack Gargan,Dabbs Greer,Steve Mitchell,Mickey McCardleand 28 more
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Writer
- Millard Kaufman
- Producer
- Dore Schary
- Cinematography
- John Alton
- Music
- Dimitri Tiomkin
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0046398