Paths of Glory

Expand

Now Streaming

Paths of Glory (1957)

NR 12/20/1957 (US) War, Drama, History 1h 28m

User
Score

What's your Vibe?

Play Trailer

It explodes in the no-man's land no picture ever dared cross before!

Overview

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Stanley Kubrick

Director, Screenplay
Humphrey Cobb

Novel
Calder Willingham

Screenplay
Jim Thompson

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Kirk Douglas

Col. Dax
Ralph Meeker

Cpl. Philippe Paris
Adolphe Menjou

Gen. George Broulard
George Macready

Gen. Paul Mireau
Wayne Morris

Lt. Roget/Singing man
Richard Anderson

Maj. Saint-Auban
Joe Turkel

Pvt. Pierre Arnaud
Christiane Kubrick

German Singer
Jerry Hausner

Proprietor of Cafe
View More

Full Cast & Crew

A review by John Chard

100%

Written by John Chard on May 3, 2015

Madness and Patsies Crash Together In Kubrick's Explosive Thunderbolt.

Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory is holding up rather well these days, in fact it's as pertinent and relevant as ever.

It's 1916 and the French and German armies are in opposing mud trenches, when the French are ordered to undertake a suicidal assault on a German held hill, many of the soldiers are quick to realise it's an impossible order to see through to its conclusion and retreat, something which brings charges of cowardice from the military hierarchy. Someone must take the fall...

Withdrawn from circulation in... read the rest.

Read All Reviews