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Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Writers:
Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) &
Calder Willingham (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
25 October 1957 (West Germany) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | War more
Tagline:
Never has the screen thrust so deeply into the guts of war! more
Plot:
When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
The most realistic, most emotionally draining, and most beautifully photographed movie ever made about trench warfare in WW I. more (252 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

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 (as Joseph Turkel)
Christiane Kubrick ... German singer (as Susanne Christian)
Jerry Hausner ... Proprietor of cafe
Peter Capell ... Narrator of opening sequence / Judge (colonel) of court-martial
Emile Meyer ... Father Dupree
Bert Freed ... Sgt. Boulanger
Kem Dibbs ... Pvt. Lejeune

Timothy Carey ... Pvt. Maurice Ferol
Fred Bell ... Shell-shock victim
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Additional Details

Runtime:
87 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Spain:T | Iceland:L | Spain:(Banned) (1957-1986) | West Germany:12 (f) | South Korea:15 | Brazil:14 | Argentina:Atp (re-rating) | Netherlands:12 (2007) (DVD) | Argentina:13 (original rating) | Australia:PG | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | Finland:K-16 | France:(Banned) (original rating) | France:U (re-release) | Ireland:12 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (1987) (uncut) | USA:Unrated
Filming Locations:
Munich, Bavaria, Germany more

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Trivia:
The epic battle sequence was filmed in a 5,000-sq.-yd. pasture rented from a German farmer. After paying for the crops that would have been raised that season, the production team moved in with eight cranes and as many as 60 crew members working around the clock for three weeks to create trenches, shell holes and the rough, muddy terrain of a World War I battleground. more
Goofs:
Boom mic visible: During the first tracking with Dax in the trenches, the shadow of a boom-mike is visible. more
Quotes:
General Mireau: If those little sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll face French ones! more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Tales from the Crypt: Yellow (#3.14)" (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Der Treue Husar more

FAQ

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Is "Paths of Glory" based on a novel?
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108 out of 129 people found the following comment useful.
The most realistic, most emotionally draining, and most beautifully photographed movie ever made about trench warfare in WW I., 15 February 2004
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Author: hptaylor from Pasadena CA

I think that Stanley Kubrick is the greatest of all film directors, and in my opinion "Paths of Glory" is Kubrick's best film because:

1. It is FAR AND AWAY the most realistic, most emotionally draining, and most beautifully photographed movie ever made about trench warfare in WW I, which has to be considered to be one of the significant episodes in all of human history. The story is fiction, but the events are patterned after some actual mutinies in the French army that took place in 1917.

2. I first saw this film 46 years ago, and it not only made me an avid Kubrick fan for the rest of my life, it made me want to watch it over and over again -- more than 250 times over the years, and every time I see it, I cry at the end (when Kubrick's future wife, and the only woman in the film, sings "The Faithful Hussar", causing the audience of French soldiers to change from a jeering crowd to a hushed, teary-eyed group of lonely men).

3. Everything about the movie is PERFECT!! There are no flaws in the acting, the pace of the movie, the photography, the dialogue, etc. Scene after scene is more powerful and ironic than the preceding one, building to a shattering climax. It is simply a gem.

4. Try as I might to think of actors that could have been substituted in their places, I think the casting for each and every part in the movie really could not have been any better. No one could have been better in their respective roles than George Macready, Adolphe Menjou, Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, and all of the others. Many of these actors appear in Kubrick's other films.

5. Has there ever been a better scene than the one in which one of the condemned soldiers (Ralph Meeker) stares at this cockroach and cries that tomorrow that bug will still be alive and he will be dead. Whereupon one of the other condemned men (the fatalistic Timothy Carey) squashes the cockroach and says "Now you got the edge on him".

6. You could probably change a few things in most of Kubrick's other masterpieces to slightly improve them, but I DEFY anyone to single out anything in "Paths of Glory" that could be improved upon. I could go on and on raving about the beauty and pathos of this film, but I think I will stop here.

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