Paths of Glory (9/11) Movie CLIP - Your Men Died Very Well (1957) HD
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Col. Dax (Kirk Douglas) is offended when Gen. Mireau (George Macready) and Gen. Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) speak casually about the death of his men.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
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, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation. Against his better judgment, Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) leads the charge, and the results are appalling. When, after witnessing the slaughter of their comrades, a handful of the French troops refuse to leave the trenches, Mireau very nearly orders the artillery to fire on his own men. Still smarting from the defeat, Mireau cannot admit to himself that the attack was a bad idea from the outset: he convinces himself that loss of Ant Hill was due to the cowardice of his men. Mireau demands that three soldiers be selected by lot to be executed as an example to rest of the troops. Acting as defense attorney, Colonel Dax pleads eloquently for the lives of the unfortunate three, but their fate is a done deal. Even an eleventh-hour piece of evidence proving Mireau's incompetence is ignored by the smirking Broulard, who is only interested in putting on a show of bravado. A failure when first released (it was banned outright in France for several years), Paths of Glory has since taken its place in the pantheon of classic war movies, its message growing only more pertinent and potent with each passing year (it was especially popular during the Vietnam era).
CREDITS:
TM & © MGM (1957)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, George Macready, Adolphe Menjou
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Producers: James B. Harris, Kirk Douglas, Stanley Kubrick
Screenwriters: Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson, Humphrey Cobb
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“Your men died wonderfully!”
If you ever hear your superior officer say this…do not hesitate to frag him.
Deal me in man !
" They died for France !"
I would kill the a ss hole if said that to me...
Humans beings been treated like garbage.
Fighting for the wellbeing of the oligarchs...
Noted
"Oh, no, a grenade... out of nowhere... exploded our poor commander! Anyway..."
"So that's it, then? You are making me the goat?" Well, he does look the part with that beard...
“France cannot have fools deciding her military destiny…”
From Napoleon IIi to Petain to DeGaulle
How Ironic
Napoleon III wasn't necessarily a ''fool'' fwiw, the prussians(Bismarck and his Spanish ally Juan prim) put France in an untenable position, she couldn't have accepted a German prince on the Spanish throne. It was unacceptable.
Petain was a brilliant general, but he became a tratior
@@Heisenberg882 Petain was a realist about what was going on in WW1, sacrificing the French army in needless offensives with no enough heavy fire support was foolish. Petain politically was a reactionary tho similar imo to Achille bazaine.
All the guys you named were great generals. However with the exception of De Gaulle, not so much as political leaders.
@@Heisenberg882 Vichy France was the legitimate French State, like it or not so calling him a traitor is retroactive victor's justice.
He may be the most evil character in any Kubrick film, and THAT is saying quite a lot, oh my droogies.
"Purity of essence, Mandrake."
Ripper tried to start WW III; that's pretty evil.
@@starguy2718 He didn't Try .... He Succeded!
@@starguy2718 Ripper was psychotically delusional, and also played up for laughs. He also expected to die for his actions, so he at least shared in what he inflicted. Alex is fully aware of his psychopathy, which at least makes him an honest villain. This guy is talking out of both sides of his face, simultaneously professing to care about his men and the war while throwing their lives away and staying as far from the front as possible. Doing anything to make himself look good while not sharing in the danger and misery and failure he creates. He has attempted to fool everyone, especially himself. In peace, such a character is frustrating and pathetic , but in war it is tragic and intolerable.
The story is based on the Souain Corporals Affair, but the real life version has an ending that would have been considered unbelievable in a movie. The French High Command commuted the sentences of the condemned men, but the order to stop the executions arrived two hours after the men had been shot.
Tell me you're not serious.
I looked it up and it was written that the families got ONE Franc as compensation along with their regular pension.
That's true???!!!
Then people wonder why French soldiers in ww2 were "unmotivated" to say the least. They knew their commanders were rotten to the core.
Its antimilitary content meant that the film was banned from American military bases. It was also officially censored in Spain by the fascist government of Franco, and was not released there until 1986, 11 years after Franco's death.
I’ve never felt so revolted and disgusted by a character. A masterpiece of a film.
Winston Churchill who fought on the Western Front said this movie was the most realistic WW1 film made..
French fighters with American accents.
He didn’t actually fight himself. He was already a high ranking member of the Cabinet in WWI. First Lord of Admiralty I believe
@@ACNC1 Well yes it's an American movie of course it'll be in English. It's not like it would make any more sense to have them speaking in some silly fake french accents anyway.
@@jakemitchell6578 Not a great fan of Churchill but to be fair to him when he was demoted and then resigned from goverment, he served on the Western Front.Until he was called back to goverment again in 1916.
@Hugh McKendrick yes, but some people talk as if he was a frontline average infantryman out in France. Just annoys me sometimes.
When his commander got up 1:33 Kirk Douglas did the same. It's a soldier's reflex. tiny but great detail.
. . .and one which we seldom see in cinema these days.
@@mantabond Yeah, instead we see stuff like an enlisted man or junior officer dropping a salute before his superior, or even a superior officer initiating a salute
@@IrishCarney Ugh. That really gets my goat, especially a superior officer initiating a salute.
@@mantabond It does occur.....and is not indicative of a breach of military discipline or decorum/
@@schoolssection I am quite familiar with that. What we find insulting is a filmmaker not bothering with small matters.
The luxurious and over the top decor and meals in which they live and enjoy, while their men suffer unspeakably, is just so perfect in showing how utterly detached and despicable these officers are.
This is one thing the German army learned from WWI and afterwards found ways to bring their officers and enlisted men closer together.
You can't believe they were talking about human beings in the first 24 seconds and yet they were.
Exactly...
Just what is happening now with the great reset and Mickey Mouse Covid virus, false death certificates, and heart attack vaccines, no difference
It’s beyond sickening how cynical he is about the lives of his men. Let’s pray such monsters are no longer in any civilized army.
@@ariplatt8192 they ain’t in the army their in the senate
I know. Mireau speaks just like a modern, self-important, starving artist.
General Mireau: “The only completely innocent man in this whole affair.”
"They treated my so unfairly, more unfairly than any one else."
Worst part is, I think he genuinely believes it.
George Macready was one of the most underrated actors in film history. His performance in this movie is a masterpiece. Even at the end he insists he's the real victim and is totally unrepentant. Wonderful!
@@fatdaddync I AGREE.
You are Soooo Right.
I loved the continuation of the scene above!
He was a great actor. Also played a lot of roles in American TV series in the 50's and 60's.
He reminds me of Colonel Mustard lol
He played the US Secretary Of State,Cordell Hull,in the movie "Tora Tora Tora".His dismissal of the Japanese Ambassador was a highlight of this great movie.
Mireau is one of my most hated characters EVER. Love this movie so much!
His character (and this movie) remind me of the words of my great-great grandmother : "The men who make the wars should be the first into battle." Mary Stuart Mobley Merriwether.
So was the other general
@@catelynstark9883 Guy's talking about his most hated characters, you can't tell him what they are.
@@SStupendous well the other general Broulard just stood by and let it happen believing it will serve as a warning
@@catelynstark9883 Yeah
Adolphe Jean Menjou was so casual...loved it..."you'll come through it alright"
The definition of tact
The way he manipulates people in this movie is brilliant. He has such a warm, jovial demeanour that you can actually believe that he isn't the scumbag that he truly is. In a lot of other movies, you can kind of tell when characters are being manipulated. Actually, I can only think of one other live action performer who managed to pull off manipulation without broadcasting that it was manipulation to the audience and this was actually in Doctor Who, not a movie. Bonnie in The Zygon Invasion played Clara Oswald so perfectly that I was genuinely shocked when it was revealed that she was a Zygon. In hindsight, I probably should have seen the twist coming but Jenna Coleman actually fooled me because literally the ONLY clue she gave that there was something off about Clara was tying her hair in a ponytail. That's something women often do so it seemed like a totally innocent gesture until the twist was revealed. Her voice, expressions and mannerisms were exactly the same as they were when she was playing Clara until she was allowed to drop the act and show Bonnie.
I'd go AWOL from France.
0:31 the restraint it must have took for Dax not to slap that smug look off of General Mireau's face.
Mireau was a cold and arrogant SOB.
I think Kirk Douglas's performance in this film is the best of any actor in any film, played with passion.
its his best film hands down...
I never get tired of this flick... I might be stretching it, but see similarities to another Douglas film titled, "Town Without Pity".
Well, I wouldn't go that far but this was a fine performance. Kirk had a tendency to deliver overwrought performances but that was not the case in this film.
Kubrick original choice was gregory peck but kirk douglas persistency fought and get the role.
Also paid well with a third of the
Budget!
One of the ten greatest black and white films ever made..."Your men died very well"...So evil.
That's not what the film is called, huh
Dax would have given up his rank for the lives of those 3 men. Mireau would perish the thought of it.
While claiming all the while to have no interest in his rank
Timeless Classic, one of the best war films and the first masterpiece directed by Stanley Kubrick , sure Kirk Douglas was a great actor, but Adolph Menjou was truly a remarkable actor in every film he was.
Not to pick nits, but as many times as I've seen this never before noticed that neither general or Lt. Col. (Douglas) wear insignia of rank.
@@schoolssection Rank insignia was worn on the sleeve, as shown multiple times.
@@schoolssection General Broulard had 3 stars (Major Gen) and General Mireau had 2 stars (Brigadier Gen) on the sleeve.
Yes, Menjou was remarkable in this film.
This clip is infamous, absolutely infamous!
This movie provided much inspiration for my book on WW I, 'The Great Class War 1914-1918' (Toronto, James Lorimer, April 2016).
One of the few war movies I like to watch over and over. I can't be as eloquent as others that view this film and speak about the subtle things going on. I hated the scar faced officer intent on being obeyed and nothing else. The disregard for the men under his command is galling. But to see his actions finally being brought out into the open after innocent soldiers are shot makes for a bitter sweet revenge in a way. Even so I doubt very much he would ever face what was forced on those that were picked for execution. No, his kind receive a medal, and those under him just scars.
It's all about manipulating an underling, hogging the credit if he succeeds, and dumping the blame on him if he fails.
Basically you described politics and especially corporate life.
George macready played the part so well I hate his character so much but I love the way he delivers it
To me General Broulard is the Real Criminal here, though indirectly. It was General Broulard, a member of the Chief of Staff, that chose to entice General Mireau into taking the Ant Hill operation, expecting it to be taken in limited time with limited resources, by offering General Mireau a new promotion, a distinguished medal, even though he initially declined the operation due to the above stated reasons. And he also expected or knew that Gen Mireau will use my means necessary to accomplish that objective, playing both Gen Mireau and Col Dax, which can be observed in their dialogues. While playing the " Neutral " Command. He put his " Friend " Mireau in a precarious position and when things backfire and don't go as planned and when " inconsistencies " in the method of operation was exposed, he has no RELUCTANCE in issuing death penalties and investigations into both cases of " inconsistency " in the operation. Doesn't hesitate abit to throw the ill-equipped and non-supported soldiers before a firing squad and Mireau before a military inquiry body. Col Dax was right in calling Gen Broulard a sadistic old man, but he forgot to add " clever and shrewd military politician ". And he even has the guts to equate the 3 soldiers losing their lives to the " pressure " he and his " Chief of Staff " body got from the newspapers and politicians... Somebody's Injustice is his Inconvenience
Broulard was Machiavellian to the core. Like you say he was a very shrewd and clever political general, he was however amoral and sociopathic. He viewed life as cheap and the only thing that were important to him were results. He appears to admire ambition but also doesn't care about morals, even going so far as to lambast Dax for 'idealism' when Dax made it clear to Broulard he didn't try to defend the condemned men to further his own career like Broulard thought he did, but to actually try to clear their names.
Kirk Douglas RIP
They left out Kirk's best lines; "You degenerate, sadistic old man," etc.
Why didn't he call him a rapist?
He says this to the other general for his having complemented Dax on his adroit political maneuvering. He praised Dax for getting rid of an opponent.
I am only watching these clips in response to Kirk Douglass death. But this appears an amazing film. Brutally realistic.
bunny jin I highly recommend the movie.
Well, it's Kubrick
Men died wonderfully?
The colonel has more control than I would've in this scene. It would've been all I could do not to break the general's nose.
Or his neck…
The general sought out scapegoats to cover his tracks ... but failed to realize he would end up one himself. At least he lived ...
What goes around comes around, even if the punishment he'll receive isn't deserving enough.
@@madgavin7568 Well...karma is just another superstition/religion angle.
Isn't it revolting how old men with medals sacrifice young men in war.
Remember Odysseus in the movie Troy, consoling Achilles who is about to meet with Agamemnon: "War is young men fighting and old men talking....ignore the politics."
I didn't know Adolphe Menjou was born in Pittsburgh and graduated from Cornell University. I always assumed he was born in France. He served in WW1.
A cute story about Menjou. He was very right wing and while making a film with Katherine Hepburn, lost no time in making it clear how much he loathed her politics. Nevertheless, she and Tracy frequently took Menjou to dinner. When filming was completed and Menjou back home, his wife sent Hepburn a telegram, thanking her for "taking such good care of my husband."
@@julianmarsh1378 I believed the name of the movie you're stating is "State of the Union" (1948) with Van Johnson and Angela Landsbury, who plays a ruthless newspaper owner and mistress to the Tracy character. Interesting that year was an election year as well, the 1948 title bout between Truman (D) against Dewey (R). I'm not sure but Menjou did appeared as a "friendly" witness in the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
this is fantastic. this movie, despite its subject, and much like full metal jacket years later, has just enough reality to make you feel how it smelled.
"Full Metal Jacket" (1987) is horrible in my opinion. I am glad you enjoy watching the movie. I do think, however, "Paths of Glory" (1957) is remarkable.
@@smit4459 Why do you think it's horrible when In fact many Vietnam veterans said that it's one of the most accurate movies to the subject?
I've heard that this film is Mr. Douglas' favorite.
@Cliff Yablonski Cliff, you're absolutely right ! Kirk said his best film was Lonely are The Brave and his favorite role was Vincent Van Gough in Lust For Life. He held a high regard of the work he did with Stanley Kubrick but he couldn't stand working with him.
Also Lonely are the brave which i saw back in 1959 Odeon, Junction road, Upper Holloway, North London,
Macready had such a cool voice
Of course there will be an inquiry but i think youll come out all right
Kubrick was a genius at telling dark stories of humanity.
Stanley Kubrick at his best
AN INQUIRY ? PUBLIC ? The way he says it, masterful :)
"France cannot afford to have fools guiding her military destiny!"
What's disgusting is that happened in real life.
It's based on a real life incident, but the real life case is more complicated than in the film. In the real life case, a French Army division actually did refuse orders to attack (for valid reasons, but still, they did disobey orders). Also in the real life case, 24 soldiers were sentenced to death, but only 4 were actually executed, so most were spared.
the man you step in the back is a soldier that's funny and what he's done to his soldiers for his pride his promotion his medals on the blood of innocence
The word was “stabbed”.
Kubrick has them doing this thing perfectly ...that's Stanley 😅
I thought that was Michael Douglas....I realized that was his father....
Michael was born in 44. This was released in 57. Kirk was born in 16.
1:38 It would have been awesome, after Mireau says that he's being made the goat, Dax said "Um, Sir, excuse me, but I am the GOAT!"
Most of my life "goat" has meant the guy who dropped the touchdown pass. Only in the last 20 years or so did it become a compliment. Interesting, if I live long enough I'll have to learn English a second time.
Шикарный момент!
Bombed his own men? He should join the US army.
Are these guys Generals or Politicians? They sure sound like Politicians! "But I'll be ruined come the next election!" *rolls eyes*
Just how, exactly, do you think you get to the top in an established military?
The only completely innocent man..........?
wsilver58 much different time and a much different perspective. Several generals of the time period believed in the Napoleonic style of warfare. A high percentage of deaths was allowable thanks to the theory of victory by annihilation.
@@jakemitchell6578 In these times quite of few people believe insane and morally unsupportable things as well.
John Downs true. I’m not defending the guy, just pointing out the outdated tactics the French and particularly the British used.
Narcissistic sociopaths employing psychopaths...
Along with pawns and scapegoats.
The more things change the more things remain exactly the same.
Pentagon: Your men died wonderfully.
.......... Breaker Morant is another court martial movie in which soldiers face a kangaroo court ; they're Australian soldiers in the Boer War.it's an actual historical event......... Major Burns in Mash appears to have some patriotism lines that parody the lines here.
other great film
Well, the first 200 frontal assaults didn’t work. But THIS one will.
20th Century weapons with 19th Century tactics. By 1917 the French soldiers had had enough of being used as cannon fodder, low pay, and next to no leave. They mutinied en masse but the Germans never found out. It cost General Nivelle his job and was replaced by Pétain.
The butchery on the western front was unlike anything ever seen in warfare, TBH the French were in a tough spot, they had to repel the German invader but in trying to do so they butchered a good portion of their army.
OK I feel like these men die for no reason And the reason they did die was bullshit 😤
I burst out laughing when I heard this @2:13
Paths Of Glory - 1957
Come And See - 1985
Cranes Are Flying - 1957
Best anti war films ever made.
Casualties of War ( 1989 )
I wouldn't call P.of G. an "anti-war film". Rather, I'd say it is "anti-militarism"......showing that the nasty, belligerent Germans are not the only "militarism above all" people in this world.....the "peaceful" and compassionate French were hard-headed as well in this excellent film.
All Quiet on the Western Front has to be well up there too.
How many know that Adolphe Menjou started his film career early in silent films? You can find him opposite Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in "The Three Musketeers" playing Louis XIII of France to Fairbanks D'Artagnan? IN 1921 for God sake. He moved from silent film to sound in the 1930's and worked into the 1950's.
I knew. :)
And he was also regarded as the best golf player in L.A. ( he actually won the most competions in L.A.) and often won the title of
"The Best-Dressed-Man-in- Hollywood".
In 1923 he had also played the male lead in Charlie Chaplin's ambitious melodram "A Woman Of Paris", the only of Chaplin's great silent classics, where Chaplin himself didn't appear as an actor, but solely as a director.
At the time of its premiere this movie was sadly a huge flop and Chaplin so deeply dissapointed, that he withdraw the picture from them market for decades.
But today it is regarded by many film critics as classic and real piece of art of the silent era, that was just ahead of its time, and one of Chaplin's best efforts as a movie director.
The real villian in this movie is always the top officer...we don't see the one ordering him, but yes it must have went straight up.
Damn I wish Kirk Douglas came back with line as that bastard was walking away from the table.
Sick
Identity v brought me here lmao
Much like vietnam war
Attacking hills of no strategic
Importance and valleys in a no win war!
Managed to find plenty of them to command their army at the start of WW2.
Oh, I caught this movie on TV many years ago.
It's awful. I mean, it's very well made but the attitudes and procedures (which are true) is awful. The soldiers shot for cowardice had been framed so the officers would not be responsible.
So it’s a good war movie, then.
The movie was banned in France using germans to
Portray french soldiers!
Mireau: I find it absolutely infamous! 😬😠😤
Me: You should talk! 🙄😒🤨
Ils ne peuvent pas traduire en français bordel de merde!!!!0
0:32
What a disgusting statement
Yes. Just as for what Mireau says between 0:11 and 0:19. Killing those three men after a nonsense process and after a attack ordered in such nonsense way that alone is something leaving a bad taste.
@@MrAndreabgn
What really gets me every time, is the shooting of a man so ill, they had to tie him to the post _whilst still on his stretcher_ ...
រំសាយកងទ័ពយោធាជាបន្ទាន់ទួទាំពិភពលោក
ពីស្តាប់ផ្តាច់ការ
NOSARIN CONBODIA nosarin
SARINNOSARINCOMBODIA
George the General is a great actor, plays the part magnificent in my opinion
George Macready was Bulin Mundson in GILDA, famous scene!
Are those two insane? I need to watch this again
Partly base on true story.
カ―クラグラスですよ米国の俳優で私の好き俳優さんでした😌
No-mans-land was hell on earth. It was pock marked with bomb craters and rotting corpses everywhere. The craters were especially dangerous. They would flood with rain water and if a soldier of either side fell in one with their equipment and heavy wool uniform, you could easily drown. Plus, all the rotting corpses attracted rats into the trenches. They were a constant presence.
Ne uscirai benissimo!
It’s movies like this that put into perspective a statistic I once read about WWI, that of all the French males born between 1896 and 1902, 1 in 2 would be named or killed by wars end. People often like to talk about how many men Russia lost in WWI but forget how their casualties rates are often dwarfed by French casualties and Russia had a larger army.
The accomplished director of photography of the movie, Georg Krause, was from Germany.
Shortly before this movie he had also photographed two parts of the classic trilogy of the "o8 / 15" - movies, which were among the first movies made in Germany about WW2 in 1954/55.
He was known and appreciated for his particularly crisp and gritty
black&white cinematography.
( Actually he'd never made a single movie in color.)
Some further interesting bits of trivia about this movie:
Kirk Douglas played not only the lead role, but served also as producer of the movie thru his own production company, Bryna-Productions.
The movie was completely shot on a pretty tight budget
( close to 1 Million $ )
at the Bavaria Studios, Munich-Geiselgasteig,
and some nearby surroundings
in Bavaria/ Germany.
The trenches were built and the battle scenes filmed on a field near Munich-Pullach.
The "New Castle Schleißheim" in Oberschleißheim is the location, where the execution scene was filmed in front of, and also the trial scenes were filmed inside that same castle.
The specialist providing the
(then still solely ) practical pyrotech effects was the famed German FX-man, Karl "Charlie Boom Boom" Baumgartner, who'd provide the pyrotech effects for some thirty years for many international movies, among them
"The Longest Day"
(USA 1962),
"Dunkirk 1940"
( France 1964),
"The Bridge at Remagen"
(USA 1968),
"Waterloo"
( Italy/USSR 1970),
"A Bridge too Far"
(GB 1977),
"Steiner - The Iron Cross"
( Germany 1977) and
"Das Boot"
(Germany 1979/80/81)
To save the production some money ironically all the ( non-speaking ! ) extras playing French soldiers were actually German policemen recruited from the state police of Bavaria, because they got payed by the Bavarian federal state and were by law not allowed to earn some extra money, because, as said, they were state officials.
There really lies some irony in the fact, that all the extras playing French soldiers were actually Germans, doesn't it !? ;)
This was a rather cheap method for the Bavarian goverment to promote the movie production facilities in Munich to foreign producers and attract them to produce their movies there.
The policemen would be sent to the movie set during their official work hours and got paid by the state.
Another advantage of hiring policemen as extras was, that they were naturally used to handle arms, so the production had not to spend considerable time in giving unexperienced extras some training lessons in it.
( Five years later another classic American war movie would be produced here as well :
"The Great Escape"
with an all star cast.
And in 1979/80 another classic,
"Das Boot", this time as a complete German production.)
But it is pretty likely, that most of these men had also actually fought as soldiers, the older ones in WW1 ( and maybe they were even forced to fight again in the "Volksturm" during the last months of WW2 ) and the younger men probably in WW2.
So most of the non-speaking extras certainly knew the song and could fully understand the lyrics.
So it was probably no big acting deal for them to tear up, when Christiane Kubrick had sung it in front of them so movingly and in such plain fashion like a German mother from a hundred years ago would have sung it to her little child.
There lies so much "innocence" in the unpretentious way she sings this simple tune, that you can't help but being deeply touched by it.
Btw. Kirk Douglas had quite a relation to Bavaria and the movie studios in Munich there.
He would make three movies there in the second half of the fifties and at the beginning sixties.
This one and then immediatly after that "The Vykings" ( yes, that movie was actually shot for the most part on and near a lake in the Bavarian Alpes, which was quite s convincing stand-in for a Norwegian fjörd, and the battle scenes actually in the Normandy/France)
and in 1961"Town without Pity",
a movie, that had felt into rather oblivion today ( probabably due to its even more controversial subject), and where Kirk played a very similar role, but this time an American military lawyer.
And of course Kirk Douglas got good connections to Germany since in 1954 he'd married his second wife, Anne, who was from Hannover.
Kind regards from a classic movie buff from Germany !
It’s unbelievable how much Kirk Douglas looked and talked like his son.
You have that backwards.
@@wstavis3135 I do believe it's a Joke! ....
Those Danielovitch genes really bred true.
I have yet to figure out whose room were they eating in. Adolph Menjou appears to be in his room then George McReady comes in. Yet, when they are eating, Kirk Douglas knocks and McReady tells him to come in. I'm lying awake at night trying to sort this out.
General Mireau suddenly had to relieve his bowel and left directly for a lavatory.
Scapegoats must be found to cover
Faults by others it's as old as the hills
War is unpleasant people die some
Are cowards others heroes
Medals for bravery
Mentions in despatches
Etc etc!
Anyone knows what they are eating? It looks very tasty.
9/11?
One million French soldiers were killed directly and indirectly by ‘friendly’ fire from their own artillery. Le Massacre De Notre Infanterie.
A source that I found on the internet, called "People Also Asked..." says that a total of 1,327,000 French soldiers were killed in World War I. Could you please quote your source for 1,000,000 of them being killed directly and indirectly, by friendly fire from their own artillery?
@@kenw9681He's Been smoking too much crack
If there exists a more punchable general, I haven't seen him.
One Bloody Disaster from beginning to. E
Cont...End.Everybody lost
I coming from identity v
Damned nobility
Winston didn’t fight in WWI, he was a minister in the government.
He did fight in the trenches. After the disaster at Gallipoli, he resigned and took the rank of major, commanding a battalion for about four months in the Ypers sector. In fact, for a few weeks, he was less than 10 miles from Hitler, who fought in the trenches for most of the war.
Great movie
LTC Dax, of course . . . .
Is any man truly innocent
2deep4me
No, not really ...
Isn’t it true that this film cost about a $million dollars - 1/3 of it ($300,000) went to Douglas... yet, the film itself only made about $5,000?
Dankeschön
Any time I see Macready, I can't help but think about Lenny Bruce's "Airplane Glue" routine
@:47 continuity error, surprised Kubrick let that slide 🤔
Makes my heart so sad,
Gorgeous film