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PATHS OF GLORY
July 11, 2014  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Stanley Kubrick directed and co-wrote this intense, disturbing 1957 movie about soldiers who defy what seem to be recklessly risky orders in World War I, and are targeted for their actions. Kirk Douglas stars, and the actor was so impressed with Kubrick’s handling of this film that Douglas called in Kubrick to direct Spartacus three years later. This is less of a war film than an early anti-war film, and is all the stronger for it. And it’s followed, at 9:45 p.m. ET, by one of the earliest and best anti-war war movies ever made (also about WWI), 1930’s All Quiet on the Western Front.

 
 
 
 
 
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