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Based on a true incident during the Great War, this film is a powerful anti war statement, revolving round the wrongful court martial of three trench soldiers.

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EAN5060000702286

eBay Product ID (ePID)7048560588

Product Key Features

ActorRalph Meeker, Kirk Douglas, Richard Anderson, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Timothy Carey, Wayne Morris

Film/TV TitlePaths of Glory

DirectorStanley Kubrick

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2016

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesBlack & White

GenreDrama, General

Run Time88 Mins

Additional Product Features

CertificatePG

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationPATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The story takes place in 1916 France, as the French command orders an exhausted unit to wrest control of an anthill from the Germans--expecting a casualty rate of 60 percent. The battle--during which the Germans are never seen, indicating that the French are their own worst enemy--turns into a bloody massacre. Looking for a scapegoat, General Mireau (George Macready) orders Colonel Dax (a never-more-intense Kirk Douglas) to select three of his men to face a court-martial and possible firing squad for the troops' cowardice. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, PATHS OF GLORY, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobbs, is a gut-wrenching, unforgettable drama. Every scene is awash in grays, covered in doom. Kubrick marvelously contrasts the ornate palace where the generals sip their cognac with the ramshackle trenches where injured men stumble about, demoralized and shellshocked. Douglas gives a tough, gritty performance; his tense sparring with the high command features sharp, biting dialogue. The entire cast is outstanding; watching so many men die for no reason is maddening. Kubrick captured the Vietnam War in FULL METAL JACKET, the cold war in DR. STRANGELOVE, the Seven Years' War in BARRY LYNDON, and a slave uprising in SPARTACUS, but PATHS OF GLORY is his crowning achievement when it comes to depicting the devastation, both physical and psychological, that war wreaks on the individual--as well as the state.

ScreenwriterCalder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Stanley Kubrick

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitlePaths Of Glory

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