Paths of glory
By: Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Bryna Productions ; Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson ; produced by James B. Harris ; directed by Stanley Kubrick
Contributors: Krause, Georg, 1901-1986, cinematographer; Kroll, Eva, film editor; Fried, Gerald, composer; Reiber, Ludwig, 1904-1979, artistic director; Müller, Martin, sound designer; Dubois, Ilse, 1922-2008, costume designer; Douglas, Kirk, 1916- actor; Meeker, Ralph, 1920-1988, actor; Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963, actor; Macready, George, 1909-1973, actor; Morris, Wayne, 1914-1959, actor; Anderson, Richard, 1926-2017 actor; Turkel, Joe, 1927- actor; Hausner, Jerry, 1909-1993, actor; Capell, Peter, actor; Meyer, Emile, 1910-1987, actor; Freed, Bert, 1919-1994, actor; Dibbs, Kem, 1917-1996, actor; Carey, Timothy Agoglia, 1929-1994, actor; Cobb, Humphrey, 1899-1944; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Bryna Productions; Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Special ed.
Series: Criterion collection -- 538; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 538.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Irvington, NY]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9781604653403
Subjects: Drama; World War, 1914-1918; Courts-martial and courts of inquiry; Film adaptations
Description: During WWI, a French battalion is ordered on a suicide mission that is likely to fail. When it does, the general that planned the mission selects three soldiers from the battalion to be executed for cowardice, and selects their leader as their attorney. Cast, credits, and essay by James Naremore printed in booklet inserted in container.
Notes: Based on the novel "Paths of glory" by Humphrey Cobb.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

Photographed by George Krause ; editor, Eva Kroll ; music, Gerald Fried ; art director, Ludwig Reiber ; sound, Martin Müller ; costume designer, Ilse Dubois ; special effects, Erwin Lange.

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson, Joseph Turkel, Susanne Christian, Jerry Hausner, Peter Capell, Emile Meyer, Bert Freed, Kem Dibbs, Timothy Carey.

Not rated.

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

In English with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Named to the National Film Registry in 1992 by the Library of Congress.
Table of contents: title: Special features: Commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Audio interview with Stanley Kubrick conducted by Jeremy Bernstein (1966); Television interview with Kirk Douglas (1979); Video interview with James B. Harris; Video interview with Christiane Kubrick; Video interview with Jan Harlan; Segment from a French news program detailing the World War I tragedy involving French Corporal Théophile Maupas (1997); Theatrical trailer. Booklet: "We have met the enemy ..." essay by James Naremore.