PATHS OF GLORY (1957) - (The Criterion Collection - #538) [DVD9] [2010]

Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory is among the most powerful antiwar films ever made. A fiery Kirk Douglas stars as a World War I French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission. This haunting, exquisitely photographed dissection of the military machine in all its absurdity and capacity for dehumanization (a theme Kubrick would continue to explore throughout his career) is assembled with its legendary director’s customary precision, from its tense trench warfare sequences to its gripping courtroom climax to its ravaging final scene.






MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Stanley Kubrick
COUNTRY: USA
YEAR: 1957

Cast & Credits

Cast
Colonel Dax Kirk Douglas
Corporal Philippe Paris Ralph Meeker
General Geoge Broulard Adolphe Menjou
General Paul Mireau George Macready
Lieutenant Roget Wayne Morris
Major Saint-Auban Richard Anderson
Private Pierre Arnaud Joseph Turkel
German singer Christiane Kubrick (as Susanne Christian)
Proprietor of cafe Jerry Hausner
Narrator/Court-martial official Peter Capell
Father Dupree Emile Meyer
Sergeant Boulanger Bert Freed
Private Lejeune Kem Dibbs
Private Maurice Ferol Timothy Carey


Credits
Director Stanley Kubrick
Producer James B. Harris
Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson
Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb
Photographed by George Krause
Camera operator Hannes Staudinger
Art director Ludwig Reiber
Music Gerald Fried
American production manager John Pommer
German production manager George von Block
Editing Eva Kroll
Makeup Arthur Schramm
Sound Martin Müller






DVD:
DVD RELEASE: October 26, 2010
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 538
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.66:1
BLACK AND WHITE
AUDIO: English Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 88 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 1 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS file
FILE SIZE: 7.85 GB
SCANS HQ PDF(800 DPI): 27.3 MB

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Disc Features

* New high definition digital transfer made from 35 mm film elements restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive in cooperation with MGM Studios, with funding provided by the Film Foundation and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary featuring critic Gary Giddins
* Excerpt from a 1966 audio interview with director Stanley Kubrick
* Television interview from 1979 with star Kirk Douglas
* New video interviews with Kubrick’s longtime executive producer Jan Harlan, Paths of Glory producer James B. Harris, and actress Christiane Kubrick
* French television piece about a real-life World War I execution that partly inspired the film
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar James Naremore