This film is perhaps not as well known as it should be! - It perhaps deserves to be more famous than it is with a Director Like Stanley Kubrick at the helm - who also wrote the screen play.
The film is set during world war one and stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax a French Commander who is ordered by his General on a suicide mission to try and capture one of the German occupied hills.
Although the orders are followed the mission goes quite wrong and as a result several of the men are put forward for court martial for the crime of cowardice.
When this film was released in 1957 it was an unfortunate flop - although the critics liked it! - I think that the audiences just weren't ready for this harrowing style of film - which sits nicely amongst todays Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red line to name a couple.
Although at times depressing this film is worth a watch the acting is of a good standard with a good supporting cast and as for the attack sequence this is where Kubricks direction really hits the mark!
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Paths Of Glory [1957]
The pity of war has been a much-favoured film topic; the treachery of war much less so,
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though never more persuasively than inPaths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick's breakthrough feature from 1957. Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest screen performances as ...
Paths Of Glory [1957]
The pity of war has been a much-favoured film topic; the treachery of war much less so,
... more
though never more persuasively than inPaths of Glory, Stanley Kubrick's breakthrough feature from 1957. Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest screen performances as ...
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