Paths of Glory (1957)
Stanley Kubrick directs Kirk Douglas in this anti war film set in WW1. An attack by a French division fails and the general blames the cowardice of his troops, to punish the troops men are selected at “random” to be executed for the failings of the whole division.
The main bulk of the film deals with Douglas acting as the defence for the soldiers charged with cowardice trying to save them from execution. While superficially the men are being punished for the cowardice of the whole division in reality they are being punished for the poor leadership of the general and this seems to be the main point how the failure of those in power results in hardship for those below them while the general largely gets away unscathed. There is not much more to say about this film other than it is well made if not remarkably so.
4/5 a good early Kubrick effort.
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