Top billed cast

1. 

   Kirk Douglas

   Col. Dax

2. 

   Ralph Meeker

   Cpl. Philippe Paris

3. 

   Adolphe Menjou

   Gen. George Broulard

4. 

   George Macready

   Gen. Paul Mireau

5. 

   Wayne Morris

   Lt. Roget/Singing man

6. 

   Richard Anderson

   Maj. Saint-Auban

7. 

   Joe Turkel

   Pvt. Pierre Arnaud

8. 

   Christiane Kubrick

   German Singer

9. 

   Jerry Hausner

   Proprietor of Cafe

10. View more

Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-05-03

Madness and Patsies Crash Together In Kubrick's Explosive Thunderbolt.

Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory is holding up rather well these days, in fact it's as pertinent and relevant as ever.

It's 1916 and the French and German armies are in opposing mud trenches, when the French are ordered to undertake a suicidal assault on a German held hill, many of the soldiers are quick to realise it's an impossible order to see through to its conclusion and retreat, something which brings charges of cowardice from the military hierarchy. Someone must take the fall...

Withdrawn from circulation i...read the rest

Recommendations

1. All Quiet on the Western Front77%
2. The Longest Day76%
3. The Zone of Interest70%
4. The Guns of Navarone72%
5. The Last of the Mohicans73%
6. The Last Rifleman66%
7. Journey's End63%
8. The Lost Battalion67%
9. Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin67%
10. War Horse73%
11. The Monuments Men60%
12. Devotion70%
13. The One That Got Away68%
14. The Six Triple Eight75%
15. Barry Lyndon79%
16. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas78%
17. The Codes of War61%
18. The Bridge on the River Kwai78%
19. The Great Escaper66%
20. The War Below67%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$935,000.00

Revenue
$1,200,000.00

Keywords

• army
• france
• based on novel or book
• general
• germany
• world war i
• patriotism
• cowardice
• idealism
• idealist
• black and white
• soldier
• anti war
• 1910s
• war
• fighting the system
• psychological drama
• excited