Paths of Glory (Criterion Collection)
It explodes in the no-man's land no picture ever dared cross before!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 26, 2010
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Kirk Douglas & Adolphe Menjou | |
Performer: | Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joe Turkel & Timothy Carey | |
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Edited by | Eva Kroll | |
Screenwriting by | Stanley Kubrick & Calder Willingham | |
Composition by | Gerald Fried | |
Cinematography by | George Krause | |
Art Direction by | Ludwig Reiber | |
Produced by | James B. Harris |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Kirk Douglas and Timothy Carey are outstanding among the troops on the front line, while Kubrick's relentlessly probing camera offers constant evidence of a film-maker at the height of his powers.
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Radio Times
What elevates Paths of Glory above and beyond the standard war film (despite Kubrick's keen direction) is its final moments.
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Spectrum Culture
Rating: 4/5 --
Those who are used to 2001: A Space Odyssey or A Clockwork Orange will initially find this black-and-white First World War drama starring Kirk Douglas rather traditional, until its radical content is revealed.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 3/5 --
Some kind of corrupted masterpiece.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 5/5 --
A reminder both of [Kubrick's] extraordinary formal virtuosity and his powers as a satirist.
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Classic Kubrick film with complex, heavy, anti-war themes.
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Common Sense Media
Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest performances as the intelligent and courageous Col. Dax.
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Orlando Sentinel
Product Description:
PATHS OF GLORY is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. The story takes place in 1916 France, as the French command orders an exhausted unit to wrest control of an anthill from the Germans--expecting a casualty rate of 60 percent. The battle--during which the Germans are never seen, indicating that the French are their own worst enemy--turns into a bloody massacre. Looking for a scapegoat, General Mireau (George Macready) orders Colonel Dax (a never-more-intense Kirk Douglas) to select three of his men to face a court-martial and possible firing squad for the troops' cowardice. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, PATHS OF GLORY, based on the novel by Humphrey Cobbs, is a gut-wrenching, unforgettable drama. Every scene is awash in grays, covered in doom. Kubrick marvelously contrasts the ornate palace where the generals sip their cognac with the ramshackle trenches where injured men stumble about, demoralized and shellshocked. Douglas gives a tough, gritty performance; his tense sparring with the high command features sharp, biting dialogue. The entire cast is outstanding; watching so many men die for no reason is maddening. Kubrick captured the Vietnam War in FULL METAL JACKET, the cold war in DR. STRANGELOVE, the Seven Years' War in BARRY LYNDON, and a slave uprising in SPARTACUS, but PATHS OF GLORY is his crowning achievement when it comes to depicting the devastation, both physical and psychological, that war wreaks on the individual--as well as the state.
Keywords:
Classic
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Politics
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War
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World War I
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Injustice
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Recommended
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Theatrical Release
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France
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Essential Cinema
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