All the Young Men (1960) DVD Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier

All the Young Men (1960) B&W DVD Approx. 86 min. (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Shown in original aspect ratio. With optional English subtitles / close captions. Great picture and sound!

Starring: Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Glenn Corbett, Mort Sahl, Ana St. Clair and Ingemar Johansson. Written, produced and directed by Hall Bartlett.

In October 1950, shortly after U.S. forces invade Korea, an advance Marine unit is sent to find and hold a farmhouse that is situated in a strategic mountain pass. As the Marines make their way down a snow-covered mountainside, they are attacked by waiting Chinese troops. A lieutenant (Charles Quinlivan) is mortally wounded in a winter ambush that decimates his platoon, he passes command to the highest ranking survivor, Sergeant Towler (Sidney Poitier), a black man. However, all of the other men left alive are white. Towler feels that Private Kincaid (Alan Ladd), an ex-sergeant with 11 years of experience (demoted for doing things his way), is better suited for command, but the lieutenant orders him to take charge and complete their vital mission: to take and hold a farmhouse strategically positioned in a mountain pass for the advance of their battalion. After the lieutenant dies, Southerner Private Bracken (Paul Richards) initially refuses to take orders from Towler, but Towler forces him, at gunpoint, to back down.