All the Young Men

All the Young Men  During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon’s sergeant, who’s black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn’t like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.

STARS: Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren

87 min | Action, Drama, War | 1960 | Color

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Alan Ladd and Sidney Poitier in the Korean war- not without odds and ends
There are any number of Second World War films about American soldiers at their best, and there are a lot of Vietnam war films about American soldiers at their worst, but there are not so many Korean war films, because that war was neither dirty nor heroic. All the films there are about that war practically only display the worst sides of war, horrible tribulations and arduous sufferings for nothing with normally a most unglamorous cruel death, there was nothing attractive at all about that war, and there could never be any sympathy or empathy with the communists on the North Korean side - they were just all a horrible menace with nothing human about them. Here at least there are a few North Koreans who earn some respect, sympathy and understanding, although just two women and a boy, but they bestow a tiny portion of humanity into this picture which otherwise would have been just unbearably hard. Alan Ladd is a scarred veteran who fares ill, and gradually Sidney Poitier more and more takes over the lead of the film and with honour, which eventually leads the film into a very satisfactory end, although the beautiful monastery is blown into cinders, but humanity survives it.