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Take the high ground! / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; story and screen play by Millard Kaufman ; produced by Dore Schary ; directed by Richard Brooks.

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2016]

©2016

1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. burning

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

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.

Rating: Not rated.

Archive collection.

United States. Army -- Drama.

Basic training (Military education) -- Drama.

Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Drama.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Drama.

Military films.

War films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Brooks, Richard, 1912-1992, film director.

Kaufman, Millard, author, screenwriter.

Schary, Dore, film producer.

Widmark, Richard, actor.

Malden, Karl, actor.

Stewart, Elaine, 1930-2011, actor.

Tamblyn, Russ, actor.

Carpenter, Carleton, 1926- actor.

Courtland, Jerome, 1926-2012 actor.

Forrest, Steve, 1925-2013, actor.

Arthur, Robert, 1925-2008, actor.

Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979, composer (expression)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.

Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.

"This disc is expected to play back in DVD video 'Play Only' devices, and may not play back in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives"--Container.

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

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

First released: United States : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1953.

DVD-R, NTSC, widescreen (1.78.1), Dolby Digital 2.

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