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.
Cover art of Take the High Ground!
Richard Brooks was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. Nominated for eight Academy Awards in his career, he was best known for Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood (1967) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977).
Brooks in 1986
Richard Brooks on set at MGM studios, 1950's
Brooks and Peter O'Toole on Lord Jim (1965) set in Cambodia
Writer Truman Capote and Brooks in 1968