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Paths of Glory

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Paths of Glory

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First World War drama from director Stanley Kubrick, starring Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker and Adolphe Menjou. Ordered to attack an impregnable German position, French troops fall back after only a few yards. When it is decided to court-martial three men for cowardice, their colonel does his best to defend them but discovers that political manoeuvring can be just as deadly as the front line.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

David Parkinson

Winston Churchill claimed this film came closest to capturing the atmosphere of the First World War and exposing the workings of the military mind. Director Stanley Kubrick was said to be a great admirer of Napoleon, and this fearsome indictment of the futility of war can also be read as a lament for the decline of the once glorious French army. As the general who orders a hopeless attack on a German position, Adolphe Menjou is a villain not because he is an officer slavishly adhering to the letter of army law, but because he is an arrogant aristocrat, motivated more by fear of the lower classes than by hatred of the enemy. Kirk Douglas and Timothy Carey are outstanding among the troops on the front line, while Kubrick's relentlessly probing camera offers constant evidence of a film-maker at the height of his powers.

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Cast

rolenameColonel DaxKirk DouglasCorporal ParisRalph MeekerGeneral BroulardAdolphe MenjouGeneral MireauGeorge MacreadyLieutenant RogetWayne MorrisMajor Saint-AubanRichard AndersonPrivate Pierre ArnaudJoe TurkelPrivate FerolTimothy CareyColonel JudgePeter CapellGerman girlSusanne ChristianSergeant BoulangerBert Freed

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rolenameDirectorStanley Kubrick

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Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2014-05-02

Languages

English | German | Latin

Guidance

Contains violence.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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