Paths of Glory

(1957)

88 minutes

Drama / War

Narrated by Peter Capell

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Cast: 

Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax
Ralph Meeker as Corporal Philippe Paris
Adolphe Menjou as Major General Georges Broulard 
George Macready as Brigadier General Paul Mireau
Wayne Morris as Lieutenant Roget
Richard Anderson as Major Saint-Auban
Joseph Turkel as Private Pierre Arnaud
Christiane Kubrick as German Singer 
Jerry Hausner as Cafe Proprietor
Peter Capell as President of the Court Martial
Emile Meyer as Father Dupree
Bert Freed as Staff Sergeant Boulanger 
Kem Dibbs as Private Lejeune 
Timothy Carey as Private Maurice Ferol
Fred Bell as Shell-Shocked Soldier
John Stein as Captain Rousseau
Harold Benedict as Captain Nichols 

When soldiers during World War I refuse to obey orders on a dangerous mission, their leaders choose to make examples out of them. Colonel Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice in a court martial. 

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