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Paths of Glory

Kirk Douglas (Actor), Ralph Meeker (Actor), Stanley Kubrick (Director, Writer) Rated:
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC, Black & White, Dolby, Closed-captioned
Contributor Calder Willingham, Joe Turkel, Jim Thompson, Richard Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Jerry Hausner, Bert Freed, Humphrey Cobb, Christiane Kubrick, Peter Capell, Ralph Meeker, Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Emile Meyer See more
Language English, French
Runtime 1 hour and 27 minutes
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A World War I French colonel defends three soldiers picked to be shot for a general's blunder. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.38 x 0.6 inches; 2.4 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ FOXS907674DVD
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Stanley Kubrick
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 27 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 31, 2006
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0792841409
  • Writers ‏ : ‎ Calder Willingham, Humphrey Cobb, Jim Thompson, Stanley Kubrick
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,883 ratings

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Great film! Still strong thanks to Kubrick's unsentimental approach. Very relevant to today's world.
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JGJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Great film!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2024
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This is a great WWI movie that speaks on the tough circumstances that often go untold. This is a must watch for all Stanley Kubrick fans! Be ready to be immersed in a raw but awesome story that can only be provided by great directing and acting.
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Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Paths of Glory
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
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Phenomenal Movie and Product
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J.K
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent movie
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2024
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This movie hits on one the worst events of WW1. Execution of soldiers for what is called PTSD today. Shameful act from the allied army commanders.
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Richard C. Geschke
5.0 out of 5 stars A German Song Solidifies a Thesis!
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2013
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Oh the insanity of war! Paths of Glory exclaims and underlines that the settlement of differences by means of violent actions has nothing to do with glory. In this well done movie depicting the sad separation of the privileged and ruling class as opposed to the common slug barely making through the travails of life we see a sad symphony played out in all too real detail.

The plot of the movie revolves around the depiction of the French Army fighting in the fields of Flanders stalemated in the trenches of the third year of the Great War. The main characters in this movie revolve around Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), General George Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) and General Mireau (George Macready.)

At this time in the war each side was trying to gain any advantage possible to advance forward and break the interminable stalemate. With this in mind General Broulard approaches General Mireau and orders him to attack the well-fortified German position labeled the “Anthill.” Mireau selects his best regimental commander Colonel Dax to attack and overtake the “Anthill.”

As Colonel Dax receives his orders he sends out a patrol to assess the situation and the next morning goes over the top in leading his men across no man’s land in the assault of the 701st Regiment on the “Anthill.” Subsequent withering indirect and direct fire completely disseminates the regiment and the retreat begins. The impossible cannot be done and the attack fails to capture the cherished objective.

During the attack General Mireau witnesses the retreat and is angered by the defeat and immediately orders artillery to fire upon the retreating 701st Regiment. Mireau declares the retreating soldiers are cowards of which he has no use for. According to the General these men failed in their mission only because of cowardice. As a rear echelon General officer he has deemed that it was through cowardice that caused the failure to achieve defeating the Germans on the “Anthill.”

Hence Mireau decides that this failure was not his fault in ordering this absurd operation and demands retribution in court-martialing random soldier to stand trial for cowardice. Upon this decision he orders Colonel Dax to select three men to face the court martial and subsequent death by a firing squad. Retribution will be taken on a select few as opposed to all who survived this unfortunate debacle.

Suffice to say, Colonel Dax who in civilian life is a very successful lawyer takes up the defense in the already fixed court martial. Known to all the men are condemned to death in this rather disgusting display of hubris of the power elite. The basis of the thesis for all this is that all wars are controlled from those in power and the rules of these conflicts emanate from the top and those who are among the servitude must abide by the rules. The modus operandi applies to all participants of the game we call war. Such is the message of Paths of Glory.

At the end of the movie came a very moving scene in which in a French Café attended by Dax’s men of the 701st Regiment finds a very young German fraulein brought forth to sing a song. Among the jeers of the men she still sings a very moving German song which quells the jeering and brings the soldiers to hum along to a very moving and passionate song which ends the movie. The significance of this touching scene is that in the end Germans and the French are indeed the same and that in this life war signifies the wants of the elite rulers and not that of the common person.

Remember war is not glory, in fact if you look at it in very human terms, war is a crime!
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B. L. Wray
4.0 out of 5 stars Shoutout to the Boommic
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2022
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This was a really fantastic transfer. High enough that the boom mic outline on the face of a person is extra easy to spot.

That aside what do we have to work with/major issue with the story.
So, a WW1 attack goes wrong and to "inspire" the troops and restore moral, someone has to take the blame. So three troops are selected for various reasons and put on a show trial. Kirk Douglas does a really fine job almost all the way thru the film until the end.

At the end Kirk's character is offered the job of the former commander who caused all this mess and what does he do? He melts down and throws it all away in the stupidest ending imaginable. Everything he fought to stop throughout the story he can now stop as the Commander.... and he doesn't.
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C. Collins
5.0 out of 5 stars a visual anti-war parable
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2008
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A film with a strong message requires a skillful presentation in order not to become overbearing. Paths of Glory, while having a strong anti-war theme, rises to the top due to the exceptional photography, editing, and straightforward narrative structure coupled with the tension that arises from social injustice and poor leadership. Kubrick treats the story as a parable, allow us to see a range of actions under a shared experience. We see front line solders at their best and worst and we also see the French officers under similar but a bit more sophisticated situations.

Paths of Glory is probably based on an event in World War I during the French Nivelle Offensive whereby the men on the front lines were pushed to remain on the offensive and overtake points of no strategic worth while losing considerable lives. The offensive objective here is tellingly called "The Ant Hill". The men refused to attack but remained on the offensive in the trenches. The French officers fired thier artillery upon their own men. This incredible historic event lays the groundwork for this fictitious film.

Wisely the film narrows down the number of characters to basic types and individual concerns and conflicts. Thus we have careerist incompetent leadership negligently wasting the lives of their men on poorly developed plans and objectives. The film is tragic in that after the men refused to attack, men were selected at random to be executed for cowardice and executed before the troops as examples and to encourage more enthusiasm in the future.

Kirk Douglas plays the moral center for the film, playing Colonel Dax, a public prosecutor who joined the army. He defends the three men selected to represent the troops in a military judicial kangaroo court. Douglas is in top form and top shape. His performance is powerful and made more powerful by the subtle performances of his canny superior officers and the simple basic emotional responses of the men under his command.

Kubrick's film-making is superb and the careful photography of interiors reveals his early mastery of this art form. Kubrick recognized the ability of the context of action to cradle the narrative and give added dimension. Thus his shots of the trenches with long twisting tracking shots give one of the best impressions of World War I front line. The scenes of the court martial are high drama, revealing a stage with all the high drama of Greek tragedy. The execution scene is perfectly developed, revealing how the symetry of the troops in a geometric courtyard contrasts against the injustice that is about to occur. The scene of a captured German girl singing in a cafe is a bit overplayed but makes its point about the amazing manner in which men can be swayed from wrong to right and back again for in the end we are vastly limited.
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Maria Bergman
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best anti-war films ever made
Reviewed in Germany on December 15, 2020
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Kubrick really showed what a master he would become in this amazing film. We have his trade mark dolly shots and brilliant performances from the cast. It's a powerful statement about the madness of war and that the enemy is actually the whole power structure.
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Silvestre Licea Dorantes
5.0 out of 5 stars Es un gran precio por una calidad excelente
Reviewed in Mexico on December 12, 2017
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Gran producto, llegó en buen estado y es una película excelente, cumplió y superó mis expectativas. Lo recomiendo sin dudarlo.
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Kelly Novak
5.0 out of 5 stars A really excellent restoration of a really excellent film
Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2013
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This review is for Paths of Glory (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Paths of Glory (The Criterion Collection Spine #538) [Blu-ray] obtained April 2013.

A really good film showing Kirk Douglas at a younger age than I have seen him before. He was an excellent actor even back then. The film is gripping and suspenseful.

I highly recommend this film for anyone over the age of 16, because it is not a straight forward war film. I worry WWI battlefield office politics (to put it plainly) would confuse many boys under that age (and bore most girls).

The restoration is excellent.

To me, the reason to buy a blu-ray is to get the full length film (even theatres run cut versions, so they can get more showings in) and to get the commentary, interviews and extras -- and this is something that Criterion Collection normally excels at.

This version of this film is like that. Lots of extras. You'll be able to watch the film over and over again over the year with new insights and new appreciation.

(If you watch the extras, there is a secret about the guy who sobs and how much he affected production. I had to chuckle at the hoops Kubrick and team had to jump through after him -- and you would never guess watching the film what happened and what needed to be done. It makes the film double the accomplishment.)

From the Criterion Collection product information:

New high definition digital transfer made from 35 mm film elements restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with MGM Studios, with funding provided by the Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
New audio commentary featuring critic Gary Giddins
Excerpt from a 1966 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick
Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas
New video interviews with Kubrick’s longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick
French television piece about a real-life World War I execution that partly inspired the film
Theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore

I highly recommend buying this film.
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Drouard Pierre
5.0 out of 5 stars Une horreur longtemps tue
Reviewed in France on October 9, 2008
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Film extraordinaire qui a du subir les effets de la censure pendant de nombreuses années car il n'était pas possible de reconnaître ces tribunaux créés à la va-vite pour complaire à l'Etat-Major et aux Gouvernements de la même époque afin de créer des exemples par rapport à une boucherie sans nom qui n'a pas été isolée.
Interprétation et mise en scène extraordinaire. On est devant un film de Kubrick. Il y en aura encore d'autres ensuite dont la qualité ne sera jamais à remettre en doute.
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P.J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!!!
Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2023
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