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    All the Young Men (1960)

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    A US Marine patrol is attempting to hold a snowcovered mountain pass during the Korean War when their Lieutenant dies, leaving his inexperienced black Sergeant, Eddie Towler (Sidney Poitier) in charge of the squad of belligerent and racist white men.

    Towler takes over a Korean farmhouse, inhabited by an elderly woman, her Eurasian daughter, Maya (Ana María Lynch), and the latter’s small son, and determines to hold it until the main body of Marines arrives.

    Towler’s men include Kincaid (Alan Ladd), a demoted sergeant; Bracken (Paul Richards), a negro-hating Southerner; Wade (Glenn Corbett), a medical student; Crane (Mort Sahl), a corporal, and Torgil, a Swede (Swedish heavyweight boxing world champion Ingemar Johansson).

    Bracken forces his attentions on Maya but Towler intervenes. During all this, Red snipers get cracking and pave the way for a tank attack.

    The Marines destroy the tank, but Kincaid’s leg is badly crushed. Wade amputates it and a transfusion of Towler’s blood saves Kincaid’s life. The racial war is over.

    Marine reinforcements appear and Towler and Maya look longingly at each other as the curtain falls.

    Alan Ladd never pushes himself as Kincaid while Paul Richards makes a thoroughly nasty piece of work as Bracken and Mort Sahl introduces a couple of laughable monologues as Crane.

    Sgt. Kincaid
    Alan Ladd
    Sgt. Eddie Towler
    Sidney Poitier
    Pvt. Cotton
    James Darren
    Pvt. Wade, Medic
    Glenn Corbett
    Cpl. Crane
    Mort Sahl
    Maya
    Ana María Lynch
    Pvt. Bracken
    Paul Richards
    Pvt. Casey
    Dick Davalos
    Pvt. Dean
    Lee Kinsolving
    Pvt. Jackson
    Joseph Gallison
    Pvt. Lazitech
    Paul Baxley
    Lt. Earl D. Toland
    Charles Quinlivan
    Cho
    Michael Davis
    Hunter
    Mario Alcalde
    Pvt. Torgil
    Ingemar Johansson

    Director
    Hall Bartlett

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