Paths of glory [videorecording (Blu-ray)] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson ; directed by Stanley Kubrick ; produced by James B. Harris ; a Bryna production.
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. Booklet contains an essay by Kubrick scholar James Naremore. 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.
Summary:
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.
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