Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick
United States, 1957

35mm Archival Print

featuring

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready,

Paths of Glory remains one of the most coolheaded assaults on cold-blooded murder ever filmed. The story, based on a true incident in the French Army in 1916, traces the court-martial of three soldiers chosen as scapegoats for the failure of a suicidal French infantry attack against superior German forces. Paths of Glory is comparable in its beauty and pathos to classic World War I antiwar films like All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), but in its concentration on lunacy in the high command, and in its brittle cynicism, it is pure Kubrick.

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Stanley Kubrick
  • Calder Willingham
  • Jim Thompson
Based On
  • the novel by Humphrey Cobb
Cinematographer
  • Georg Krause
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 88 mins
Source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
  • Park Circus
Additional Info
  • 35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, restoration funding provided by The Film Foundation & the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

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