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    • Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film co-written and directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb, which was based on the Souain corporals affair during World War I. The film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack, after whi… See more

    Plot

    In 1916, during World War I in Northern France, French Major General Georges Broulard orders his subordinate, Brigadier General Paul Mireau, to take the Anthill, a well-defended German position. Mireau refuses, citi… See more

    Cast

    Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax, commanding officer, 701st Infantry Regiment
    Ralph Meeker as Corporal Philippe Paris, 701st Infantry Regiment
    Adolphe Menjou as Major General Georges Broulard, corps commander… See more

    Production

    The title of Cobb's novel came from the ninth stanza of Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751).
    The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await… See more

    Release

    The film had its "world premiere" in Munich, Germany, on November 1, 1957. A month and a half before that event, on September 18, a special screening of Kubrick's production was also presented in Munich, but then to … See more

    Reception and influence

    Although the film did not receive a single nomination for the Academy Awards of 1958, it was nominated for and collected several international awards. Those awards and many positive reviews from film critics further enh… See more

     
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