Paths of Glory [Criterion Collection]

"Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a devastating anti-war statement, and they succeeded above and beyond the call of duty. In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified ""Ant Hill"" from the Germans. General Mireau (George MacReady) knows that this action will be suicidal, ...