Paths of Glory

[DS86DS]

Thread for discussion and media relating to the 1957 film, Paths of Glory

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Paths of Glory movie review & film summary (1957) | Roger Ebert

Stanley Kubrick's "Paths of Glory" (1957) closes with a scene that doesn't seem organic to the movie. We've seen harrowing battlefield carnage, a morally rotten court-martial, French army generals corrupt and cynical beyond all imagining, and now what do we see? Drunken soldiers, crowded into a...

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Now your talking..I always thought this was an exceptional movie especially for its time .

Considering the era which it was made ,and the country in which it was made, It is a brave stance against the likes of the John Wayne mentality of most US war films. It is no surprise that the film barely broke even .

Same year as 12 angry men ..another classic.

I used to love a film called the run of the Arrow ..which was out that year.Rod steiger is a great actor.

 

[The Field Marshal]

Mr Kubrick clearly knew little about infantry frontal assault tactics.
The bunching together almost shoulder to shoulder of an infantry advance did not occur as he depicts.
Tacticians in WW1 knew full well such idiocy made easy targets for enemy fire and advised soldiers to spread out to minimize casualties.

 

[Wolm]

Is this a very old film?

 

[Tadhg Gaelach]

That's brilliantly directed scene. Builds up the tension far more effectively than the landing scene in Saving Private Ryan and other more modern films. And Douglas with his little pistol and whistle charging against machine guns and heavy artillery conveys the absurdity of WW1 perfectly.

 

[Tadhg Gaelach]

Is this a very old film?

1957.

 

[DS86DS]

Is this a very old film?

What would you say?

 

[amsterdemmetje]

Dwayne the Rock Johnson had an army tank named after him recently by the army its called Dwyane the Rock Johnson . As you know he hasn't made any war movies yet like the rest of ye I am hoping he wil this year .

 

[Irish McCeltunstein]

Dwayne the Rock Johnson had an army tank named after him recently by the army its called Dwyane the Rock Johnson . As you know he hasn't made any war movies yet like the rest of ye I am hoping he wil this year .

He would be perfect as Churchill.

 

[The Field Marshal]

Is this a very old film?

Yes.
Kirk Douglas was 103.