Paths of glory / Bryna Productions presents ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson ; directed by Stanley Kubrick ; produced by James B. Harris ; a Bryna production.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 538 | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: English Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 538.Publisher: [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2010]Edition: Blu-ray special edDescription: 1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781604653410
- 1604653418
- 9786313801114
- 6313801113
- Photographed by George Krause ; editor, Eva Kroll ; music, Gerald Fried ; art director, Ludwig Reiber.
- Director of photography, George Krause; editor, Eva Kroll; music, Gerald Fried.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans. General Mireau (George MacReady) knows that this action will be suicidal, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation. Against his better judgment, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) leads the charge, and the results are appalling. When, after witnessing the slaughter of their comrades, a handful of the French troops refuse to leave the trenches, Mireau very nearly orders the artillery to fire on his own men. Still smarting from the defeat, Mireau cannot admit to himself that the attack was a bad idea from the outset: he convinces himself that loss of Ant Hill was due to the cowardice of his men. Mireau demands that three soldiers be selected by lot to be executed as an example to rest of the troops. Acting as defense attorney, Colonel Dax pleads eloquently for the lives of the unfortunate three, but their fate is a done deal. Even an eleventh-hour piece of evidence proving Mireau's incompetence is ignored by the smirking Broulard, who is only interested in putting on a show of bravado. A failure when first released (it was banned outright in France for several years), Paths of Glory has since taken its place in the pantheon of classic war movies, its message growing only more pertinent and potent with each passing year (it was especially popular during the Vietnam era). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Photographed by George Krause ; editor, Eva Kroll ; music, Gerald Fried ; art director, Ludwig Reiber.
Director of photography, George Krause; editor, Eva Kroll; music, Gerald Fried.
Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; monaural.
Requires Blu-ray player.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joseph Turkel.
Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.
Not rated.
During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney.
Special features: 2010 audio commentary featuring critic Gary Gliddins, excerpt from a 1966 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick by author Jeremy Bernstein, television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas, new video interviews with Kubrick's long-time executive producer Jan Harlan, producer James B. Harris, and actress Christaine Kubrick, a 1997 French television piece about a real-life World War I execution that partly inspired the film, and theatrical trailer.