Claim: Stanley Kubrick worked with Kirk Douglas.

Paths of Glory is a 1957 American anti-war film by Stanley Kubrick based on the novel of the same name by Humphrey Cobb . Set during World War I , the film stars Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax , the commanding officer of French soldiers who refuse to continue a suicidal attack . Dax attempts to defend them against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial .