Other Titles • Paths of Glory • Wege zum Ruhm (1957)
Trivia from Paths of Glory (1957)
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Theatrical release: January 25, 1958.
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Shot at Bavarian Filmkunst Studios, Munich, Germany, and at Geiselgasteig Studios and Schleissheim Castle.
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PATHS OF GLORY was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1992.
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Susanne Christian, the singer at the end of the film, later became Christiane Kubrick, Stanley's third wife; they were married until Kubrick's death in 1999, and she maintains the official Stanley Kubrick Web site.
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Gerald Fried composed a different theme song for countries that might be offended by hearing the French national anthem, "Marseillaise," which appears as the theme song in most versions of the film.
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When Kubrick asked Kirk Douglas to star in PATHS OF GLORY, Douglas responded, "Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a nickel, but we have to make it." Douglas's own production company, Bryna Productions, produced the film. Bryna later made SPARTACUS, again with Kubrick at the helm.
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The last-meal scene took 68 takes.
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As a stunt to get the screenplay read, Kubrick and his production partner, James B. Harris, took a picture of themselves and some friends in military uniforms and attached the photo to each screenplay copy that went to the studios.
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The trenches built for the film were six feet wide instead of the standard WWI width of four feet in order to allow room for tracking shots.
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Harris appears in the film as a lowly private in the attack sequence; most of the cast was happy to outrank him.
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In order to shoot the battle sequence on a specific farm, Kubrick had to pay to the owner the market value of the crops that would have been grown there during the shoot.
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Joseph Turkel also appeared in Kubrick's THE KILLING and THE SHINING; Timothy Carey also appeared in THE KILLING.
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Baron von Waldendels served as the military consultant on the film.
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The hundreds of French soldiers were played by German policemen.
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France banned the film until 1974; the Swiss army censored it until 1970.
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Richard Anderson, who played Major Saint-Auban, went on to have a successful career as Oscar in THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN television series.
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