![]() The inevitability of a fatal foul-up is presented right at the start, when an ambitious general agrees to throw one of his regiments into an attack that he knows has little chance to succeed. It opened at the Victoria yesterday.To a certain extent, this forthright picture has the impact of hard reality, mainly because its frank avowal of agonizing, uncompensated injustice is pursued to the bitter, tragic end. Douglas has made a movie of it-an unembroidered, documentary-like account-with himself playing the role of an outraged colonel who tries vainly to intercede. That is Humphrey Cobb's "Paths of Glory," a shocking story of a shameful incident in World War I-the court-martial and execution of three innocent French soldiers on charges of cowardice, only to salve a general's vanity.Obviously, this is a story-based on an actual occurrence, by the way-that reflects not alone on France's honor but also on the whole concept of military authority. ![]() CREDIT Kirk Douglas with having the courage to produce and appear in the screen dramatization of a novel that has been a hot potato in Hollywood for twenty-two years. ![]()
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