PATHS OF GLORY Clip - "Kill Us Too" (1957) Stanley Kubrick

PATHS OF GLORY Clip - "Kill Us Too" (1957) Stanley Kubrick
PLOT: During World War I, commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his subordinate, General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a German trench position, offering a promotion as an incentive. Though the mission is foolhardy to the point of suicide, Mireau commands his own subordinate, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), to plan the attack. When it ends in disaster, General Mireau demands the court-martial of three random soldiers in order to save face.
Release date: December 20, 1957 (Los Angeles)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
CAST: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker
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[@alg11297]

This is cinematography at it's best. Plus the music.

[@SouthBaySteelers]

Wayne Morris, the cowardly lieutenant, was actually a fighter pilot during WW2. He received numerous DFCs and other medals for his heroism in air combat. He died a young man shortly after this film was released.

[@lordracula2461]

A young man of 45, yes

[@cinartitiz]

@@lordracula2461 much young

[@thelastjohnwayne]

Aged 45, Morris died of a coronary occlusion on September 14, 1959, aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard..... While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the United States Naval Reserve and became a United States Navy aviator in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of World War II. Morris was considered by the Navy as physically 'too big' to fly fighters. After being turned down several times as a fighter pilot, he went to his uncle-in-law, Commander David McCampbell, imploring him for the chance to fly fighters. McCampbell said "Give me a letter." He flew the F6F Hellcat off the aircraft carrier USS Essex with Fighter Squadron 15 (VF-15), the famed "McCampbell Heroes." A December 15, 1944, Associated Press news story reported that Morris was "credited with 57 aerial sorties, shooting down seven Japanese Zeros, sinking an escort vessel and an antiaircraft gunboat and helping sink a submarine and damage a heavy cruiser and a minelayer."[5] He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals.

[@steadmanuhlich6734]

Wayne Morris (the man who throws the grenade and runs back to his side) was a real "ACE" US Navy Aviator during WW2. His bio on IMDB says: "While filming Flight Angels (1940), Morris became interested in flying and became a pilot. With war in the wind, he joined the Naval Reserve and became a Navy flier in 1942, leaving his film career behind for the duration of the war. Assigned to the carrier Essex in the Pacific, Morris shot down seven Japanese planes and contributed to the sinking of five ships. He was awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses and two Air Medals. Following the war, Morris returned to films, but his nearly four-year absence had cost him his burgeoning stardom. He continued to topline movies, but the pictures, for the most part, sank in quality. Losing his boyish looks but not demeanor, Morris spent most of the Fifties in low-budget Westerns. A wonderful performance as a weakling in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957) might have given impetus to a new career as a character actor, had Morris lived. However, he suffered a massive heart attack while visiting aboard the aircraft carrier Bon Homme Richard in San Francisco Bay and was pronounced dead after being transported to Oakland Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. He was 45. His last film was not released until two years after his death."

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

Whenever fans discuss Kubrick, Paths of Glory is usually an afterthought (It's not even included in his DVD box set), but I think it is in his top 3, if not best, films.

[@johnochiltree1170]

It’s usually not included in Kubrick box sets because paths of glory isn’t owned by Warner brothers who releases most, if not all, excluding dr Strangelove, Kubrick movies

[@mandolindleyroadshow706]

@@johnochiltree1170 That makes sense. Thanks for the response.

[@zakkziegler111]

It's always been my favorite.

[@whiskey_tango_foxtrot__]

Never split up a night patrol

[@alexeyhunter2755]

Friendly fire... I like films of this era, when the powder smoke has not yet dissipated. The spirit and mentality of that generation is well conveyed. It happens that the actors themselves are former soldiers. Therefore, the battle tactics and the life of the trenches are well conveyed in the films.

[@orfeo793]

much more intimate too given the technological and/or financial limitations of some filmmakers at the time

[@PolPotsPieHole]

I cant even imagine

[@aristostovboulimienne2743]

Wayne Morris was not only a WW2 hero as a US navy pilot but also a holy grenade launcher.Could you launch it so far ?

[@1960dave1960]

This scene is very beneficial to the story line, if YOU get a chance, see the whole film…..follow the scenes closely it all adds up….

[@BikerJim74]

wow, you don't say

[@eddiecochran]

El horror de la Guerra en su maxima expresion !

[@alexriver7441]

Great great movie.

[@bouchacourtthierry8506]

In those Times, commandos were called "corps francs" ...

[@SamBrickell]

*0:25* the foley artist didn't do them any favors while they were trying to sneak around.

[@trapezemusic]

Please elaborate.

[@tedbaxter5234]

A coward and two hero’s. Interesting camera work.

[@gunterangel]

The accomplished director of photography of the movie, Georg Krause, was from Germany. Shortly before this movie he had also photographed two parts of the classic trilogy of the "o8 / 15" - movies, which were among the first movies made in Germany about WW2 in 1954/55. He was known and appreciated for his particularly crisp and gritty black&white cinematography. ( Actually he'd never made a single movie in color.) Some further interesting bits of trivia about this movie: Kirk Douglas played not only the lead role, but served also as producer of the movie thru his own production company, Bryna-Productions. The movie was completely shot on a pretty tight budget ( close to 1 Million $ ) at the Bavaria Studios, Munich-Geiselgasteig, and some nearby surroundings in Bavaria/ Germany. The trenches were built and the battle scenes filmed on a field near Munich-Pullach. The "New Castle Schleißheim" in Oberschleißheim is the location, where the execution scene was filmed in front of, and also the trial scenes were filmed inside that same castle. The specialist providing the (then still solely ) practical pyrotech effects was the famed German FX-man, Karl "Charlie Boom Boom" Baumgartner, who'd provide the pyrotech effects for some thirty years for many international movies, among them "The Longest Day" (USA 1962), "Dunkirk 1940" ( France 1964), "The Bridge at Remagen" (USA 1968), "Waterloo" ( Italy/USSR 1970), "A Bridge too Far" (GB 1977), "Steiner - The Iron Cross" ( Germany 1977) and "Das Boot" (Germany 1979/80/81) To save the production some money ironically all the ( non-speaking ! ) extras playing French soldiers were actually German policemen recruited from the state police of Bavaria, because they got payed by the Bavarian federal state and were by law not allowed to earn some extra money, because, as said, they were state officials. There really lies some irony in the fact, that all the extras playing French soldiers were actually Germans, doesn't it !? ;) This was a rather cheap method for the Bavarian goverment to promote the movie production facilities in Munich to foreign producers and attract them to produce their movies there. The policemen would be sent to the movie set during their official work hours and got paid by the state. Another advantage of hiring policemen as extras was, that they were naturally used to handle arms, so the production had not to spend considerable time in giving unexperienced extras some training lessons in it. ( Five years later another classic American war movie would be produced here as well : "The Great Escape" with an all star cast. And in 1979/80 another classic, "Das Boot", this time as a complete German production.) But it is pretty likely, that most of these men had also actually fought as soldiers, the older ones in WW1 ( and maybe they were even forced to fight again in the "Volksturm" during the last months of WW2 ) and the younger men probably in WW2. So most of the non-speaking extras certainly knew the song and could fully understand the lyrics. So it was probably no big acting deal for them to tear up, when Christiane Kubrick had sung it in front of them so movingly and in such plain fashion like a German mother from a hundred years ago would have sung it to her little child. There lies so much "innocence" in the unpretentious way she sings this simple tune, that you can't help but being deeply touched by it. Btw. Kirk Douglas had quite a relation to Bavaria and the movie studios in Munich there. He would make three movies there in the second half of the fifties and at the beginning sixties. This one and then immediatly after that "The Vykings" ( yes, that movie was actually shot for the most part on and near a lake in the Bavarian Alpes, which was quite s convincing stand-in for a Norwegian fjörd, and the battle scenes actually in the Normandy/France) and in 1961"Town without Pity", a movie, that had felt into rather oblivion today ( probabably due to its even more controversial subject), and where Kirk played a very similar role, but this time an American military lawyer. And of course Kirk Douglas got good connections to Germany since in 1954 he'd married his second wife, Anne, who was from Hannover. Kind regards from a classic movie buff from Germany !

[@Lee-70ish]

One of the great war films And wow its not based on the USA winning the war for a change

[@Shatamx]

Most point American films make is the connection between the men who served. Not the bloody wars and it’s victors.

[@reensure]

Scripted and scored with the guidance of participants in the Great War.

[@1989TS..]

Wait.. A European having to watch American films because he lacks the creative power to make his own?... what a surprise!

[@Philbert-s2c]

Your average American has never heard of "The Great War."

[@SimonGardiner-bj3pq]

"All Quiet.." is much more 'realistic!

[@richardque4952]

Partly on true story In actual event I believe 50 may have been executed

[@thibaudduhamel2581]

In the french army, more than 650 men were executed throughout the first world war for cowardice or dereliction of duty. Most of those men have since been reinstated and re buried with full military honours after a comission reviewed the court martial documents and concluded most of the executed were either suffering from severe PTSD or were shot "pour l'exemple" (i.e. men chosen at random after the french army mutinies of 1917).

[@richardque4952]

@@thibaudduhamel2581 consider this more 70,000 red armies were executed by nkvd during the battle for moscow.

[@marcdelente2456]

Ce film de Kubrick a été interdit pendant plus de 25 ans il montre en gros plans la triste réalité qui ces passés pendant la grande guerre de 14 18 ce film est americain mais parle de l armé française .

[@johndisario4514]

ist world war 6-months after U.S. entered it was over what a tragedy French/British/Australin and German young men

[@banjobanjo-xn7lq]

Canada made incredible sacrifices and were feared most by the Krauts. Vimy, the Somme, Pascheandale, Ypres, to name a few battles. Yes we were still a British colony but so was Australia, which you credited.

[@johndisario4514]

@@banjobanjo-xn7lq sorry for the mistake of not including the Canadians but there were so many countries involved in WW1 it was impossible to include them all example did you no India had more casualties for the amount of troops they sent then any country war should be the last resort and it seems humans are to quick to start wars and to little to avoid

[@alecfoster5542]

You are right. The US should have stayed out of it. We should have also stayed out of the European and North African theater in WWII as well.

[@jonm2438]

@@alecfoster5542 what the hell do you mean? We wouldn’t of won WW2 without the US intervention

[@ModelTrainOutsider]

Technically, the US entered the war in April, 1917... 18 months before the end.

[@brianhiles8164]

The legendarily hard-to-please Kubrick, and he allows _this_ amateurish folley sound to pass his muster?

[@envitech02]

This was one of Kubrick's early films.

[@ПавелАксенов-д3т]

Капитализм убивает

[@SK-eu3kz]

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[@johndisario4514]

what sucks the most is this movie is based on a real incident stupid french but a great movie

[@alecfoster5542]

"Stupid French"? Compared to whom? This kind of asinine crap has happened in every military on earth.

[@Inconvenient_NPC]

Go back to school, John.

[@Shatamx]

The Confederates lost their best field General from friendly fire. Sadly every army falls victims to nerves and fears.

[@Inconvenient_NPC]

Overal, his entire comment was pretty silly: 'This movie is based on a real incident'. What? This film is based on many incidents that happened in the first world war. From trench warfare, to execution, to friendly fire.

[@Camcolito]

The Americans were always known as the worst gung ho friendly fire idiots during the second world war. My grandfather said he'd rather be fighting the Germans alone than having the Americans provide artillery or air cover, less chance of getting blown up.

[@1989TS..]

this is why we won the cold war... how could you be in the USSR and think your the greatest when you need to smuggle in films like this to have a good time?..