Paths of Glory (6/11) Movie CLIP - They're Going to Kill Us (1957) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
The soldiers become nervous and lose hope that their lives will be spared, but Pvt. Ferol (Timothy Carey) remains confident and optimistic.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans. General Mireau (George MacReady) knows that this action will be suicidal, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation. Against his better judgment, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) leads the charge, and the results are appalling. When, after witnessing the slaughter of their comrades, a handful of the French troops refuse to leave the trenches, Mireau very nearly orders the artillery to fire on his own men. Still smarting from the defeat, Mireau cannot admit to himself that the attack was a bad idea from the outset: he convinces himself that loss of Ant Hill was due to the cowardice of his men. Mireau demands that three soldiers be selected by lot to be executed as an example to rest of the troops. Acting as defense attorney, Colonel Dax pleads eloquently for the lives of the unfortunate three, but their fate is a done deal. Even an eleventh-hour piece of evidence proving Mireau's incompetence is ignored by the smirking Broulard, who is only interested in putting on a show of bravado. A failure when first released (it was banned outright in France for several years), Paths of Glory has since taken its place in the pantheon of classic war movies, its message growing only more pertinent and potent with each passing year (it was especially popular during the Vietnam era).

CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1957)
Cast: Timothy Carey, Ralph Meeker, Joe Turkel
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producers: James B. Harris, Kirk Douglas, Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriters: Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Humphrey Cobb

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[nuntiuso]

For some reason, the mental breakdowns of the soldiers hits me harder than the actual execution. Just the thought of anyone being in that situation gets me so much.

[waltereg]

"Now you've got the edge on him"

[JACKnJESUS]

It's one thing to die for your own principles...quite another to die for...someone else's.

[angloaust]

Eddie Slovak in ww2 a victim of
Injustice
An example had to be made otherwise mass desertion
Eisenhower who never faced
Combat himself sealed his fate
Even patton only slapped a few!

[ghostface]

I just realized how much i despite the cockroaches and how many of them gonna be eating my body after i die. They alive and eating, and us, me and you dead. Like an useless being.

[bodinejeremiah]

Brilliant movie those froggies must have been cringing when the film was shown world wide then again not they’ve such a chequered past