"Paths of Glory"

A Stanly Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, with Ralph Meeker and Adolphe Menjou.

This is a great film and I consider it one of the best that I have ever seen. The film cemented Kubicks reputation as a great film maker.

While fiction, the film accurately portrays the discipline that the french troops were under. Even the germans, no mean disciplinarians themselves considered the french discipline draconian.

The flim while it is about the French troops in World War One, was actually shot in Germany with 600 German police actually standing in for french troops! The reason being that, when the French authorites actually read the script, they considered the story slanderous and refused to allow Kubrick to film in France.

This is a movie to watch!