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Of course, her sweet singing of “The Faithful Hussar” tames their hearts and makes them rediscover their humanity. At last, Kubrick delivers his final, smug declaration about the “brotherhood of man” in the closing scene, in which a lustful rabble of French soldiers whistle and jeer at a German peasant girl.

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From here, the film becomes a series of monologues for Douglas to puff out his chest and argue against injustice.

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Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas, at his most self-righteous) defends the men, and the trial itself becomes a metaphor for the madness of war. When the attack on the Anthill inevitably fails, Mireau has his subordinate officers select three soldiers (Ralph Meeker, Timothy Carey, and Joe Turkel) to stand trial for cowardice, scapegoats onto whom blame for his own failure can be placed.

If his films have a claustrophobic quality, it’s due to how carefully he choreographs his actors’ movements to show that they’re not completely in control of their actions they’re driven by irrational egocentric urges and/or a desire to conform to social norms, or they’re subjected to the cruel whims of the powerful. Kubrick’s deterministic worldview expresses itself through his careful blocking of his actors. Conversing in a cavernous hall, the two men walk around and circle one another as if in a highly formal dance. The opening scene of Generals George Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) and Paul Mireau (George Macready) discussing battle strategy is pitched at the level of court intrigue, with Mireau’s initial proclamation that he values the life of his men above all else quickly (and somewhat humorously) giving way to his desire for a promotion-even if it means sacrificing thousands of lives to take a meaningless German fortification called the Anthill. Set during WWI, Paths of Glory opens in the style of Kubrick’s early short documentaries with a news-like voiceover functioning as exposition and establishing the setting-a palatial military headquarters far from the front. Unfortunately, it also seems like it could have been directed by that other prominent Stanley of the period: Stanley Kramer.Īfter two electrifying noirs, Killer’s Kiss and The Killing, Kubrick decided to take on a project with more overtly “important” themes-that of the irrationality of war, the cruelty of the death penalty, and the indifference of France’s old-world aristocracy. Though a minor achievement, it’s certainly his most humane film.

Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory should be Exhibit A in defense of the filmmaker against those who think he lacks human feeling.

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