A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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as Col. Dax
as Cpl. Philippe Paris
as Gen. George Broulard
as Gen. Paul Mireau
as Lt. Roget/Singing man
as Maj. Saint-Auban
as Pvt. Pierre Arnaud
as German Singer
as Proprietor of Cafe
as Narrator of Opening Sequence
John Chard
May 3, 2015
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…
CinemaSerf
Nov 23, 2023
"Col. Dax" (Kirk Dougas) is cajoled by "Gen. Broulard" (Adolphe Menjou) into taking his Great War weary regiment on one last mission in occupied France. Frankly, it's little better than a suicide one, but his operational commander "Gen. Mireau" (George Macready) is determined at all costs that they succeed. Let battle commence! Only the French sold…
