Paths of Glory (1957)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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Kubrick was a movie buff who echoed classics like "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels," and directors like Max Ophuls and Ingmar Bergman, in his work here.
Kubrick was a movie buff who echoed classics like "All Quiet on the Western Front" and Howard Hughes' "Hell's Angels," and directors like Max Ophuls and Ingmar Bergman, in his work here.
Exemplary of most of the battles in WWI, and also clearly illustrated in All Quiet on the Western Front, the territory gained was often only a few hundred yards at a time.
While this invokes recollections of a similar scene in John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage, an encounter with a shell-shocked soldier pre-dates the famous slapping scene in Patton and foreshadows what is to come.