"Paths of Glory" (1957) - Director Stanley Kubrick's (Anti-)War Film, Starring Kirk Douglas

[DonRocks]

None other than Dr. William Lessne, a noteworthy film buff, advised me to watch the early Stanley Kubrick film, "Paths of Glory."

This film is to Kubrick as "Johnny Got His Gun" is to Dalton Trumbo - following in footsteps of "All Quiet on the Western Front," this is a patently anti-war, WWI film - all three of these are must-sees within this narrow genre, although unlike the other two, "Paths of Glory" focuses more on bureaucratic corruption, rather than the simple horrors of war (this will be made clear within minutes).

Kubrick trivia: Only two actors have been in three Kubrick films - Philip Stone, and Joe Turkel, who was in "Paths of Glory," and who also played the ghostly bartender in "The Shining."

Film historian Robert Osborne says this was the favorite war film of Sen. John McCain.

How many young men and women do you think are prepared to do this for our country right now? A country needs to be worth fighting for ...