Synopsis
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Cast
- Kirk DouglasCol. Dax
- Ralph MeekerCpl. Philippe Paris
- Adolphe MenjouGen. George Broulard
- George MacreadyGen. Paul Mireau
- Wayne MorrisLt. Roget/Singing man
- Richard AndersonMaj. Saint-Auban
- Joe TurkelPvt. Pierre Arnaud
- Christiane KubrickGerman Singer
- Jerry HausnerProprietor of Cafe
- Peter CapellNarrator of Opening Sequence
Recommendations
- 100
Time Out London
This is the director’s most vivid, most emotional and humane film, and perhaps his best. - 100
Chicago Reader
Banned in France for 18 years, this masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist. - 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Paths of Glory was the film by which Stanley Kubrick entered the ranks of great directors, never to leave them. - 100
The Guardian
It is arguably the best film about the first world war, and still has a reasonable claim to being Stanley Kubrick's best film. - 100
Wall Street Journal
One of the greatest war films ever made. - 80
CineVue
Paths of Glory undoubtedly succeeds in both foreshadowing the bravura auteurism that was to come as well as lampooning the abhorrent bureaucracy that destroyed the lives of so many brave young men in Europe's trenches. - 80
BBC
The searing Paths Of Glory continues to impress with its striking blend of formal brilliance, economical storytelling and emotional directness. - 80
The New Yorker
The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.
