Paths of Glory

Kirk Douglas gives a powerful performance as an honorable French Army officer who, on orders from his superiors, must lead his men on a doomed mission to wrest control of a German-held hill in WWI France.  This stark dramatization was a harbinger of the major themes director Stanley Kubrick would develop throughout his career, underlining the hypocrisy and cynicism of authority.

35mm, b/w, 90 min.  Production: Bryna Productions, Inc.  Producer: James B. Harris.  Director: Stanley Kubrick.  Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb.  Screenwriter: Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham.  Cinematographer: George Krause.  Editor: Eva Kroll.  Composer: Gerald Fried.  With: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris.