Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French General Staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. A blatant suicide mission, the attack is doomed to failure. Covering up their fatal blunder, the Generals order the arrest of three innocent soldiers, charging them with cowardice and mutiny. Dax, a lawyer in civilian life, rises to the men's defense but soon realizes that, unless he can prove that the Generals were to blame, nothing less than a miracle will save his clients from the firing squad.
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Written by
Humphrey Cobb (novel "Paths of Glory") Stanley Kubrick (screenplay) and Calder Willingham (screenplay) and Jim Thompson (screenplay)
Starring
Kirk Douglas (Col. Dax); Ralph Meeker (Cpl. Philippe Paris); Adolphe Menjou (Gen. George Broulard); George Macready (Gen. Paul Mireau); Wayne Morris (Lt. Roget / Singing man); Richard Anderson (Maj. Saint-Auban); Joe Turkel (Pvt. Pierre Arnaud (as Joseph Turkel)); Christiane Kubrick (German singer (as Susanne Christian)); Jerry Hausner (Proprietor of cafe); Peter Capell (Narrator of opening sequence / Judge (colonel) of court-martial); Emile Meyer (Father Dupree); Bert Freed (Sgt. Boulanger); Kem Dibbs (Pvt. Lejeune); Timothy Carey (Pvt. Maurice Ferol). Please contact SFC to add other cast members and characters.
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