| 词条 | Take the High Ground! |
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| name = Take the High Ground! | image = Take the High Ground.jpg | producer = Dore Schary | director = Richard Brooks | writer = Millard Kaufman | starring = Richard Widmark Karl Malden Elaine Stewart | music = Dimitri Tiomkin | cinematography = John Alton | editing = John Dunning | distributor = MGM | released = {{Film date|1953|10|30}} | country = United States | runtime = 101 minutes | language = English | budget = $1,166,000[1] | gross = $2,855,000[1] }} Take the High Ground! is a 1953 film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Richard Widmark and Karl Malden as drill instructors who must transform a batch of everyday civilians into soldiers during the Korean War. PlotIn May 1953, a new group of Army recruits at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, encounter their drill sergeants, Sgt. Laverne Holt (Karl Malden) and the deeply troubled Sgt. Thorne Ryan (Richard Widmark). After Ryan's caustic appraisal of the recruits, Holt vows to make soldiers out of them during their sixteen weeks of basic training. Ryan, a combat veteran who resents his stateside duty, repeatedly applies for a transfer back to the Korean front. One night, the men cross the border to Mexico for recreation. In a bar, Ryan and Holt see a beautiful woman, Julie Mollison (Elaine Stewart), buying drinks for a group of soldiers. Later that evening, the two sergeants escort the inebriated Julie to her apartment, and Ryan finds himself drawn to her. Training begins. Ryan exposes his men to tear gas to prepare them for the harsh conditions of battle. Ryan and Holt return to the bar one night, and find Julie sitting alone. When the crude Sgt. Vince Opperman (Bert Freed) insults Julie, she runs out of the bar in tears, and Holt comforts her. Ryan and Opperman fight, and Opperman reveals that Julie was married to a soldier who was killed in Korea shortly after she left him. One day, recruit Lobo Naglaski (Steve Forrest) visits the camp chaplain to confess his murderous feelings toward Ryan, but comes to see that the sergeant has very little time in which to do a tough job. Tensions arise between Ryan and Holt, both over Ryan's callous treatment of the men and Holt's relationship with Julie. Ryan puts his men through increasingly tough drills, and during a bitter confrontation one day, Holt slugs Ryan and walks away. Later, Ryan calls on Julie at her apartment, and they fall into a passionate embrace. When she resists his further advances, however, Ryan becomes insulting, casting aspersions on Julie's virtue and chiding her for having left her late husband. One day, during a field exercise, recruit Donald Quentin Dover IV (Robert Arthur) runs away. Ryan tracks him down and gives the young man a second chance, confessing that his own father had been a deserter. As the training period draws to a close, Ryan returns to Julie's apartment and discovers she has moved out. He finds Julie and Holt at the train station. After Holt leaves, Ryan apologizes for his behavior and asks Julie to marry him, but she sadly replies that he is married to the Army. Outside the train station, Ryan and Holt silently make their peace. The men finish basic training, and as the new soldiers march by during their graduation exercises, Ryan proudly points them out to a fresh group of recruits. Cast
According to a pre-production Hollywood Reporter news item, James Arness, Ralph Meeker, James Whitmore, William Campbell, and Richard Anderson, were cast, but they were not in the film. Awards
ProductionThe film was originally to be shot at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, under the title The Making of a Marine based on an original by Millard Kaufman.[2][3] It was later asserted that "the Marines refused to cooperate because they did not want to stir up old controversies over the toughness of their training program."[4] The Army, however, cooperated fully with the studio, and location filming took place at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas. ReceptionAccording to MGM records the film earned $1,968,000 in the US and Canada and $887,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $244,000.[1] Notes1. ^1 2 {{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}. 2. ^Schallert, E. (1952, Jun 18). Dore schary to produce story of U.S. rangers; 20th slates 'solstice'. Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) Retrieved from https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.sl.nsw.gov.au/docview/166386944?accountid=13902 3. ^http://issuu.com/boxoffice/docs/boxoffice_111751/76 4. ^http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title.jsp?stid=1504&category=Notes External links
8 : American films|1953 films|Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films|English-language films|Films scored by Dimitri Tiomkin|Films directed by Richard Brooks|Korean War films|Films shot in El Paso, Texas |
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