PATHS OF GLORY Clip - "Trenches" (1957) Stanley Kubrick
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- PATHS OF GLORY Clip - "Trenches" (1957) Stanley Kubrick
PLOT: During World War I, commanding officer General Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) orders his subordinate, General Mireau (George Macready), to attack a German trench position, offering a promotion as an incentive. Though the mission is foolhardy to the point of suicide, Mireau commands his own subordinate, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas), to plan the attack. When it ends in disaster, General Mireau demands the court-martial of three random soldiers in order to save face.
Release date: December 20, 1957 (Los Angeles)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
CAST: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker
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A Kubrick masterpiece. One of Kirk Douglas' finest roles.
Totally random but I always got a kick out of "Issur Danielovitch Demsky" going with "Kirk Douglas". Great film though,almost on par with Gallipoli and Full Metal
@Mike Raffphone and??
I agree. A great acting performance. Just look at the men's eyes and the respect commanded by Colonel Dax as he walks along the trench in readiness to lead the attack. The men know that he, like them, is prepared to put his own life on the line leading from the front.
@Benjamin Sutherland never mind Raffphoney. He's a drive-by, a hit-and-run troll.
@@thegadflygang5381 Kirk Demsky sounds ok
This is, by far, the best war movie I have ever seen. All the actors are incredible. The plot shows just how little the upper echelon thought about the carnage they were creating. By the way, the only female in the movie is played by Kubrick's wife. She is also fabulous.
Never forget that the French forces had a mutiny....look it up
@@fridayray8891 the French Mutiny in WW1 often gets overshadowed by the Russian Revolution.
@@fridayray8891 so did the german
look up 1917
I would like to humbly submit for your consideration also the following two films (which I consider the best war films); La 317e Section directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1965) and Come and See directed by Elem Klimov (1985)
I don't know how he did it, but the look and feel of these men as Douglas was walking through the trench is probably the most realistic feel/look of men in combat I can think of. Wow.
Agree, 100%...
Thought the same. One could think of themselves actually being there. It was that real. One could almost read the thoughts going through their minds. Very very scary
It's on a par with 1917's trench walk, which is as high a praise as I can offer.
@Dnalor Hcslew Yeah, Kubrick couldn't get away with that kind of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN graphic detail in 1957, alas. As it was, he had a hard time getting it through studio execs and censors. I think he nonetheless does an amazing job of getting as much authenticity on the screen as he does here.
@@richardmalcolm1457 1917 was decent, Path of Glory is legendary, so i'm not too sure about the relevance of your praise...😉
The power of this scene. Done with ZERO CGI.
Or a steady cam
Mmmm hmmmm
I distinctly remember my grandfather describing the WWI flares that lit up the trenches at night. My mother told me that my grandfather was injured during a German gas attack and was in the hospital for several months. In his 60’s, he suffered from emphysema and had difficulty walking. He sat in his favorite chair, watching the birds at his feeder.
My grandfather was injured in a gas attack, spent several months in the hospital, came out addicted to morphine.
Bless him.
@@mantabond Bless him brother
Lucky blighter. Bless you your grandfather is a bloody hero 💙
In England we celebrate Guy Fawkes night on November 5th with fireworks each year. My great grandfather would always go to his bedroom, shut the curtains, and hide under the blankets. At one time we found him trembling underneath the stairs, and he had to coaxed out and escorted to his bedroom. In particular Screech Owls (sounded like whizz bangs - fragmentation shells the Germans would throw up over the trenches) and Roman Candles that shoot out coloured flares appeared to be a problem. I asked great grandma why great grandad was so afraid of them. She explained the whizz bangs, and that the Roman Candles green flare in particular was not one great grandad liked. I asked why. She told me that in the trenches they would go out on working parties at night into no mans land to put up new barbed wire. The Germans would throw up star shells to illuminate the area, and if they were spotted the Germans would then throw up a green flare. This meant commencement of bombardment, and they would be shelled by the artillery.
By this time, 65 years later and this scene still looks authentic to the point that I had to double check to make sure that this movie was actually from the 1957. The acting and chaos was exceptional, I've never been interested in 1950's movies but this one caught my immediate attention. Now I need to watch the full movie.
It's a masterpiece!
This Great Kubrick Movie made Martin Scorsese Want to be a director after seeing it when he was 14,in a NY thearte. The attack scene is Amazing for its time.🇨🇵🎥🎬🇩🇪
" I had to double check to make sure that this movie was actually from the 1957 " me too .🤣
A magnificent performance, in re-enactment so faithful to what the men of WW1 had to endure. My great grandfather would have never have watched this. He was at Passchendaele, and this would have brought back so many bad memories. Imagine this scene, but in a quagmire of mud. It rained fourteen days and nights solid before the attack. He saw his friend, Fred, literally cut in two vertically by a shell right to one side of him, and was splattered with his blood. Hand to hand fighting with Germans. Rifles, bayonets, even trench shovels to kill one another. Wounded men drowning in rain filled shell holes. 325,000 men dead on the allied side alone in that campaign. That is a sea of blood. And the generals? Their only solution was to throw more and more men into the fight. My great grandfather never called it a war. He called it a carnage of good men on both sides. A total utter waste of good fine men.
I found out many years ago that my grandfather was a very high ranking officer throughout WW1. Therefore like the officers other than Dax, he was 60 or so miles behind the front line dishing out murderous orders, whilst enjoying his champagne and cigar. I then asked my father, when i was a kid, well dad what did grandpa do in the war. Answer came back....no idea son, i wasnt allowed to ask questions. I cannot remember ever meeting him, but from what i know now, i wouldnt have liked him, by possibly knowing he sent many a young man to his death. Of course war is different as a lad
@@davidwilliamgay4821 My great grandfather of a Sunday would take me as a young lad off down the Legion Club where I would be furnished with a soft drink and a bag of crisps. Here he hung out with his mates, who were also WW1 veterans. These veterans would talk much about WW1, but they would never speak a word at home. That is because they understood that civilians had no idea of what they had experienced, and on broaching the subject would generally be told to shut up or that nobody was interested. I got to know a good many of the veterans well. One chap would sit alone drinking at a table. I was told that he liked it that way. Too many bad memories that he did not want to recount through discussion. I walked across and asked him if he had killed any Germans in WW1. That was not a wise thing to do, because some of these men could become enraged at even being asked this, and this man had almost been barred twice for angry heated arguments he had had with what he described as fools and idiots. But for the moment he saw a young boy as innocent, and so was not enraged. The man stopped drinking his pint, turned, and looking straight into me seriously with steel blue eyes, this was his answer, 'Do you know what it is to kill a man? To take from him everything he is and could ever be in this life. To take from him his wife, his children, his sweetheart, his parents, friends, relations, and all the pleasures he ever had or could have in this life. Because lad, to my eternal shame, I have killed many men. Never glorify war, never glorify death. In the end, by a chance of fate, it is you or him. But make no mistake, to butcher another man is a dirty, filthy, stinking business. Now go.' I always remembered this. As a young lad it left a lasting impression on me what these men had gone through in that hell of a war. I later found out that this man had been a machine gunner, and awarded the DSM (Distinguished Service Medal), Military Medal & Bar, plus he had an oak leaf clasp on his Victory Medal which meant he had been mentioned in dispatches. The silver carnation pip on his 1914-18 star medal ribbon meant that he was an Old Contemptible, having been with the BEF in France from the outset of the war. In other words he had been there at the start, and at the end of WW1 and survived it. I only ever found out these details at Armistice Day when all the veterans would wear their medals. I asked some of the veterans why they respected this man so much, and was told that he was courageous and brave, having proven himself on the battlefield on numerous occasions under fire. He saved one wounded soldiers life by dragging him to a pill box. Two others he saved from no mans land at night, leading them back to the trenches. Plus there were other acts of bravery that today I have forgotten. But this man I remember, and I always remember what he told me.
@@MrMoggyman brilliant story MrMoggyman. Says it all to how we should go about treating mankind with respect. Shame this philosophy has fallen on dead ears in this world, and unfortunately i cannot see it changing. My old dad once said to me Son if you cannot do someone a good turn, dont do them a bad one. Learnt this also by the military when on comms exercises all over the world. If you dont respect them they just left you alone to either freeze or likewise. Werent by all means friends but one respected each other
When I started as a Guard at Helensburgh I worked with a driver nearing retirement.
Over his career he had 19 suicides. I asked him how he coped with it.
He said to me, that he was a para at Arnhem. He'd killed more Germans than that with his knife.
Perspective.
@@Neil.Currie same in my family. As previously mentioned my grandfather was some high ranking officer in WW1 but told my father and his brother absolutely nothing. So i found out nothing either
Damn impressive for 1957. If someone showed me this scene and told me it was a modern film, I'd believe them.
All the technical aspects in this scene are just incredible. Simply the fact that this long walking shot was done before gyro stabilized cameras were invented and is so stable is mind blowing.
Watching, I thought, "This compares with Saving Private Ryan."
@@timtheskeptic1147 Yes, Kubrich was always pushing the technical envelope. Would not be surprised if that double boardwalk was covering up a camera rails and crews were pulling them away in the last minute. Makes me wonder what Kubrich could have done in this digital age. I guess it would save a lot of physical film as he was infamous for having many, many takes of a scene. But would not be surprised if that cost saving would be negated by him ordering a dozen different renderings of scene before deciding on which to use.
made much better movies back then.better scripts.. better acting.. better camera work..
@@pgroove163 yup. People look back at older sci-fi, and go, " The effects are so much better today." If the effects are all a person cares about, they aren't using their minds. Star Trek was a wonder in it's day, and its budget would be chump change today, but people still go "the effects are cheesy." The 1970's Dr Who, the effects were terrible, even for then. But the effects were not the main event, they were there to serve the story. There are even a few favorable things to say about the Republic sci-fi serials, in spite of the cardboard rocket ship on the visible wire, with the sparkler in its butt.
Like the old saying about a Broadway musical, if you go home humming the lights, scenery, and costumes, there's something wrong.
Truly one of the very best WW1 battle scenes. The details such as uniforms, military parlance, French doctrine, and so much more. Outstanding, thanks for sharing!
A long, long time ago when television still had dignity and would go off the air around 2am. One summer vacation, I was probably 11 - 12, and a station in my area was the first to pull all-nighters. They would run classic movies. This was one movie that I watched and for the first time, I was in awe. It touched me. I have watched it 50 times or more over the many decades and this is one of the best movies I'll ever see. This movie should be seen by everyone at some point in their lives. They will never make movies like this again. Haven't for the past 50 years.
I too remember stumbling on this movie a lifetime ago - it grabbed me by the lapels...
Well said. I totally agree.
Yep I remember watching this around a mates house one afternoon 30yrs ago. It was supposed to be a bit of a party with a few beers and smokes but somebody put the telly on a d very soon about 10 of us were captivated by this film. We were all stunned by just how good this film was.
YES...
Come and see
Thin red line
Platoon
Apocalypse now
Full metal jacket
Deer hunter
Dunkirk
1917
Saving private ryan (1st 20 minutes)
My grandfather fought for the Austrian monarchy in World War I and for the German Wehrmacht in World War II. He survived both wars and didn't die until 1983 when I was 15. He didn't like to talk about the war, but he often said to me that nothing scared him and his comrades in WWI more than the use of gas on the front lines.
Damn. What stories he must have had.
@La cachette des musiques perdues the problem is that those who provoke or advocate war are not the ones who die at the front. War was, is and always will be just a business. it's about geopolitics, resources and profit as always the media are the biggest agitators.
A masterpiece by Kubrik with a brilliant performance by Kirk Douglas and others.
Simply a classic, one of all time best war movie I have ever seen in my life, if not the best. Very tragic and sad ending for those poor soldiers that refused the order.
Kirk Douglas walking through the trench with bombs going off all around him and he is completely unfazed with that camera shot is one of the greatest moments in cinema , can't believe this was 1957 , kubrik is the best and most revolutionary director of all time
This film is such a forgotten classic and, in my opinion, the best war film ever made. One of Kirk Douglas' best performances and a Kubrick masterpiece.
By far my favorite scene from a film filled with great ones. From the straight shot, to seeing the looks of fear, apprehension, and most jarring of all, the look of men surrendering to their fate-the knowledge that most all would be dead, or seriously maimed once their much respected leader blows his whistle.
Brilliant cinematography!! It is extremely difficult to shoot these type of invasion scene involving hundreds of actors and crew. In 1957, no such thing as a Steadicam and much less any CGI. Zanuck's The Longest Day won't be shot till about 5 years later, and Saving Private Ryan, 41 years. As one of Kubrick's early pioneering films, this was way ahead of it's time.
Looking at this shot again, I am thinking the camera is on tracks with some kind of suspension apparatus, not handheld; if you watch, there are very few clear shots of the ground in the trench, and where there are there are duckboards there which could easily be obscuring rails. The duckboards also not arranged in the correct period fashion, which considering this movie's attention to detail in other respects suggests a necessary compromise. They keep putting people in the foreground or background obscuring the rails, or using smoke.
One of my favorite Kubrick films. Can you imagine trying to film in a trench?
if u look at the floor it is suspiciously neat, for the rolling of the camera
@@pierreclot5609 Had to be, this was filmed before the invention of gyro stabilized cameras. Which makes this scene all the more remarkable. And yes, French trenches were notoriously messy and sloppy.
It was originally a potato field. The studio paid the farmer for the average price of harvest, and dug the trenches, and no man’s land.
The filming of this must've been unbelievably difficult for the time. Nailed it. It looks incredible.
Absolutely outstanding film Great performance by kirk Douglas.
One of the best! And truly nerve-racking. There is only one Kubrick.
I think it's telling that, in this age of remakes, no one has dared remake a Kubrick film.
@@timtheskeptic1147 that's a insightful observation! I never thought about it that way until now. Indeed, even the concept of a Kubrick remake sounds paradoxical.
One of the better movies, Kirk Douglas gives a powerful performance one of my favourites.
In a career of creating incredible cinematic moments both dramatic and comic, surreal and real I believe this is Stanley Kubrick's finest scene not only for the shelling and chaos but the endless rows of looks and expressions from innocent men about to face their last mile. Douglas trying to "screw his courage" also adds to it with I believe a sense of guilt knowing the ant hill that he leads them to will get them killed. An overwhelmingly hopeless situation that both graphically and emotionally gets its point across on the futility of war.
How Kubrick achieved these shots with 1950s camera and filmmaking technology, I will never understand. It's pure genius. It's possibly the best shot sequence ever in a war film. It looks like a documentary.
Incredible scene. Stanley Kubrick was a genius. My only negative comment would be the sounds of the machine guns. Those were totally unrealistic of what machine guns back then sounded like in WW I. It almost sounds like some sort of Star Wars sound effect. You can find what the machine guns of that era really sounded like here on TH-cam.
OK, lets go back to 1915 and record the sounds of Maxim machine guns at the front, come on, man...
@@jeffsmith2022 - I’m not saying that. It’s an observation. Other people on this thread have said the same thing. It’s also surprising knowing what a perfectionist Stanley Kubrick was.
@@greg1474 It's always bugged me too. I'm sure a better sound effect than this could have been done even back in '57.
Another small thing: filter cigarettes at 1:10
The terrible waste of war...Kubrick capturing it all in one scene.
This scene, as well as the portrayal of the French Generals sipping wine in the Chateaus miles from the front lines explain why the French army mutinied in 1917. It wasn't because the soldiers were cowards, or afraid to die protecting their country. It was becasue their lives where thrown away in pointless mass assaults that accomplished nothing. The Brits themselves suffered 60,000 casualties in three days at the Battle of the Somme. But the generals were still sending men agasint machine guns and artillery across broken ground, slow to figure out it was not going to succeed.
Not sure the generals were all that slow. I've also read that some of them realized the futility but felt there was no alternative. And really, was there anything else they could do?
protecting their country ? none of the soldiers who died in WW1 actually died for protecting their country. WW1 was just game of power of European leaders, who wanted to to find out, which one of them is the biggest "boss". "You are protecting your country" is just a lie, that is meant to give the soldier a purpouse, so we would go and sacrifice his own life in pointless head on attack for the arogance, greed and total indifference of his ruler...... “In war, truth is the first casualty.” ― Aeschylus. Applyes to almost every war in human history.
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@@MXB2001 Indeed you can just do nothing and stand your ground save your soldiers lives. I think many soldiers are ready sacrifice their life for their country but sending infantry against machines guns... That's why they invented other methods like mining and later tanks. Sometimes it's better do nothing stand your fround and wait until you have better idea.
@@kunovondodenburg3332 For the French it was more true cause a large part of France was invaded but we survided other Germans invasions, before and after. So it seems sometimes it's better to give up when live cost would be too high. And what's terrible is that those game of powers are coming back! And i think it should have been to France and Germany to push for a negociated solution in Ukraine conflict. Ukraine is very young nation and ultra nationalist lead the way, Americans are full in those game of powers and never fought bloody modern conflict on their land, they play with fire.
This war was the end of the "Noble" classes in Europe because this was a war where the nobles (and non-representative government in general) forced an entire generation of young men to dig their own graves in the trenches of western Europe.
Fun fact: The extras playing the French infrantrymen were 300 Bavarian police officers because the bulk of the film was made in and around Munich. The "château" is in Oberschleissheim, the battlefield is near Puchheim and the "German girl" became Stanley Kubrick's wife.
Salut, Please allow me to put this truly magnificent film into an historical context. During WW1 the French nation incurred the worst losses in percentage terms of all the individual allied forces including those of the Commonwealth. My tiny Commune en France has on their WW1 memorial the names of the the 20% killed of the male population of military age .... 20 men. Only when I (an historian) moved to France several years ago did I finally understand why "Vichy France" was formed at the start of WW2. The French nation had suffered so badly in WW1 that in their opinion (at that time) any solution was better that another " Great War". Marshal Pétain the creator of Vichy was regarded as a hero initially. I make these comments not as a French man. I am Irish and my great grandfather Robert ( a Fusilier with 14th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles) is one of the 56,000 names on the Menin gate for whom no body was found. He died on 3rd August 1917 during the 3rd battle of Ypres - at Passchendaele. I get very emotional and angry every time I watch this movie. Vive la France, vive la Republique!
Thank you very much for your post full of comprehension.
My Greatgran father was killed in April 1918, vicinity of the Kemmel Mount, Belgium. Just like your ancestor, his body was never found.
My greatgran mother and my great mother, aged 5 at the time, spent 2 years in Belgium, trying to recover his body.
You are correct when you talk of the traumatism that this french generation went through. That doesn't excuse the horrors we helped to happen, but it put things in perspective.
@@MrSebfrench76 Monsieur, you refer (je pense) to the horrors that happened en France during the German occupation in WW2, when collaboration was undertaken with the occupying Germans.
Encore let us consider the reality. We live in the former Zone Occupe, where every large house in the Commune was used by the occupying Germans to “billet” their troops. Was this collaboration? Of course not, they had no choice. Only the Channel Islands of the UK were occupied by the Germans in WW2. If the UK mainland had been occupied …. do you think the British would have reacted much differently than the French population under Occupation?
La France est notre Pays Adopte and c’est vrai la vie ici n’est pas parfait, mais c’est très bonne. La vie en Angleterre est merde. Je suis Irlandais mais ma femme est Anglaise ….. donc c’est vrai encore le monde n’est pas parfait, mais we are married 47 years!
Bonne courage mon ami!
@@romeobravo2023 i was refering to the WW1
Please learn some history....
Please learn some history....
Incredible clip. I will have to watch the film. Something that is frequently forgotten is the horrified reaction of the upper classes when confronted by the masses of volunteers. They were aghast that so many were badly malnourished and unfit to serve simply because of poverty. They literally had no idea of the toll that poverty took on the human body.
I am French, this movie is remarquable, there is truth in his representation of this war, and the way it presented some generals and soldiers. This movie was not allowed in France up to 1975, now it is OK. That's a masterpiece.
The best anti-war movie ever- because it shows the forces behind the slaughter…
I can appreciate this movie even more nowadays because of the effort that went into this single acene
El movimiento de la camara a traves de la trinchera ....simplemente, sin comentarios !!
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LZXray said A Kubrick masterpiece. One of Kirk Douglas' finest roles." Hands down one of my favorite movies, a great anti- war movie, with amazing performances. The long "1917" shot of the general and his aid walking the trench heading to met Dax to give him the order to attack is fantastic. How they pulled that off, with the camera and sound equipment in 1957 is amazing. Great choice for a clip.
Disclipine, rehearsal, preparation, co-ordination, good leadership, good directorship, and a great team. One of the things that becomes apparent the more Kubrick "making ofs" I see is that he had a really good group of other professionals who worked with him who he could rely on. I had the pleasure of meeting his second unit director once at a classic car show in England, really insightful conversation.
Medieval Tactics with modern guns. Carnage.
even to this day the magnificent photography and thrilling sounds of stanley kubrick s films are unmatched. the kubrick s signature. the camera follows the protagonist without unnecessary talking in a beautiful symmetry allowing the scene to speak for itself!!
Incredible sound effects. The howling wind, gunfire and explosions. Absolutely devastating piece of cinema.
In my humble opinion, Paths of Glory is the finest movie ever made!!
Great film. Everyone should watch this.
A masterpiece with a message that we still have not learned....
Some say it's an anti-war film. It's actually an anti-WWI film.
Over fifty years before, in the US Civil War, the weapons outmatched the tactics, resulting in horrendous casualties.
So add to that mechanized artillery and, of course, the mass-produced machine gun, and you get an insane situation:
Modern warfare yet still run by generals of kings and empires..
It seems that it took the arrival of tanks to bring an end to such stalemate slaughter.
Palpably reminded of the opening scene from Saving Private Ryan, set on (I think) Omaha beach. For visceral power in depicting the monstrous power of shells and bullets opposing flesh and blood, there are few parallels.
This is a masterpiece of film. I still think Kirk Douglas was miscast...but then again, he always was.
An astonishing piece of work by a master actor, genius director and a veteran cinematographer at the peak of his powers.
Merci monsieurs Douglas, Kubrick and Krause.
0:28 guy sitting on the left doesn't even care to flinch anymore.
That shot of Kirk at 2:30 to 2:32 is so amazing. It's almost 3 dimensional.
WOW 😯
"1917"(movie name) used this technique too
@@fenrir4211 Can you link a clip that has a similar effect? Thanks
That is some spectacular cinematography. Death isn't acted exaggeratedly. To be honest, the movie doesn't look like it's from the 50s
Best director ever.
1:45 clod of dirt falling on the soldier is a great detail
Watching them about to go over the top induces a nauseating fear in me. I hate to think how horrific it was in real life. Poor buggers.
EXCELLENT movie , I have it on VHS!!
I on DVD
@@remstaler3444 just a shame no one has coloured this. People would then think 100 times before going to war. They will never learn though. Battle scene for 1957 unbelievable
@@davidwilliamgay4821 I think it needs no colour. Like James Ryan or Black Hawk Down. in black and white it is good enough.
@@remstaler3444 have to agree really. Colouring that would take a lifetime, and possibly take away the true meaning of the film. Horrendous sound of machine gun fire scared me even now
I remember renting it on VHS at blockbuster when I was a kid. I'm 38 now. Man how time flies!
Its amazing comparing this to similar films of the era. The gritty feel and cinematography are almost modern.
Le meilleur film🎥🎬👀 de guerre de tout les temps⏰⌚⏰ 🤪un réalisme hallucinant des combats de la première guerre mondiale 😫des généraux complètement cinglés ✌du très haut niveau cinématographique ✌✌✌
Using the working class, to fight for the elite class. Absolutely disgraceful.
Nothing has changed
Y'all already know brad pitt right? He played as achilles in 2004 movie, Troy, I think you know that. Read all his line in that movie. RELATED VERY RELATED to what you are saying here.
@@erlanggaprasetyo1606 yeah exactly 👍
This’s what we have right now in Ukraine unfortunately
@@ftheradioyep
Those who went over the top are all heroes
These grown men look like big babies crawling though those trenches.
As harrowing as it is brilliantly filmed. The endless horrifying noise is completely realistic. Madness.
Best no man's land I've ever seen. Kubrick is genius.
Damn, I need to watch this. One of only two Kubrick films I haven’t watched yet. Thank you for the reminder
The begining of the scene (the walk through the trenche) was used in "The Empire Strikes Back".
In Gladiator too.
Such a brilliant movie.
Im fkn speechless... this is an unbeliveable art of filmography...
I know it is a movie but this is what soldiers of all sides were asked to do madness
You don't need CGI when you have great actors
I'm getting shell shock just from watching this.
This is an excellent movie.
Another of Douglas' superb films.
Douglas and Ralph Meeker were both outstanding.
Kubrick was wayyyyy ahead of is time. IMO, he's the GOAT
Kubrick at his finest.
A movie from 1957 still looks better than some media does today.
The first I saw this movie was in 1983,my reaction is this got to be one the best war movie ever made.no bs no flag waving.brutal reality of war .soldier being push to the limit
Utter madness. Man's ability to create carnage is astounding.
The sound is intense. This scene stessed me the hell out. Amazing
Excellent film. I've only seen it once or twice, but great story very gripping and dramatic. Watching this clip my only quibble is the sound effects are more reminiscent of Star Wars rather than actual bullets flying.
Kirk Douglas should have got the oscar for his role as Colonel Dax,outstanding
An excellent movie
As big a fan of Kubrick as I am, when looking over his movies and their visual style, it seems Kubrick never left the trenches. (Endless corridor tracking shots, etc.)
What incredible cinematography.
Best WW1 battle scene ever.
Try watching this clip with no sound. Trust me...
Thanks for posting this: I have shown this to history classes in trying to explain trench warfare.
Wow the only Kubrick film I never saw or heard of…how could this be?
Present here, This is F**ng real effects😱
Phenomenal movie.
If I recall the movie this is the attack on the "ant hill." Armed with nothing but a pistol and a whistle, and no counter-battery fire, he advances over no-man's land against machine gun fire and enemy artillery! Seriously though the effects are impressive, the Germans must be using small calibre artillery or maybe mortars because a modern 155mm round will clear a football field.
My father served in the artillery in WWI and often discussed it with me and my brothers. In his experience, most artillery used in defending against infantry attacks like this were in the 75-90mm bracket or smaller. Bigger pieces with longer range were used most often in pre-attack barrages. If reconnaissance and spotting was adequate, the bigger guns also could spend some shots trying to take out opposing artillery units or command positions behind the front lines. Explosions like those depicted here frequently came from large caliber mortars located fairly close to the front lines. With no-mans land densely populated by attacking infantry, accuracy was not really essential. A steady rain of mortar rounds would slow the attack and make them easier targets for the machine guns. It was a stupid, horrible way to wage war. Even though his unit took some sporadic fire from German artillery a few times, my dad always said he was glad as hell he wasn't in the infantry.
Absolutely Beautiful!!
Kirk Douglas never ages.
Magnificant film depicting the brutality and insanity of war.
Aquí no es el cine sino lo que representa la película la película representa una fracción del horror de la guerra de 1914 1918 solo los que estuvieron allí pueden afirmar Los sufrimientos y lo horrible que fue Aunque el cine quiere transportar a mirar esto sabemos qué la realidad es mucho más cruel que la ficción
Cuanta razón, hermano
C'était la der des der, disait mon grand père
Mais quand les allemands ont envahi la France, il a pleuré en prononçant "on a fait tout ça pour rien".
Le politique est seul responsable !
The real events took place less than 40 years prior and WWII a little over a decade prior. We live in easy times.
I have never seen this. I am 45 and been living under a rock.
perfection epitomized. kubrick kirk rip. soldiers are men respect
There are only 2 guys walking this badass in movies amidst enemy fire, one is Colonel Dax and the other one is John Connor.
Kubrick showed us hell is a real place.
Masterpiece. Only this scene, that is.
A classic film...
When you realise that this masterpiece of art was made in 1957 with no computers or any CGI. Un-fuckin-believable!
Not a cellphone in sight, just people living in the moment