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Happy Memorial Day, everyone. I thought this was a good day to write about the 1957 film
Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas.
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Kirk Douglas played Colonel Drax, who is ordered to lead his men on a suicide mission. The first wave is nearly wiped out. The second wave refuses to leave the trenches. A French general decides to try 100 men for cowardice and execute them. A higher-ranking general, played by Adolphe Menjoy, tells him to select three men.
Three men, one from each company, are chosen, each for no good reason. Dax tries to represent them at their trial, but it is a farce. The men are shot the next day.
Paths of Glory is a painful movie to watch. It was not shown in France until 1975.
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