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Title: Paths of Glory is another Kubrick Masterpiece
Review: Kirk Douglas defends 3 men on trial for their lives during World War One.Film is great on all levels.Most of film does not take place on battlefield, but back in the rear.It is more of a study of one aspect of war rather than just the overrall fighting.Its focus is on the ethics of warfare.Macready(General Moreau) orders his own artillery to fire on his own men in order to get them to take the ant hill.The men refuse to advance because German fire too intense(it is a meat grinder beyond no-mans land).Now, 3 men are chosen as examples(to be tried and then executed for cowardice in the line of duty).Excellent, well-acted film is brilliant.(Look for Kubrick's wife at the end of film as German girl singing to French Troops in a particularly moving scene).
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