
Full Metal Jacket(1987)
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.


“It explodes in the no-man's land no picture ever dared cross before!”
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Kirk Douglas
Col. Dax

Ralph Meeker
Cpl. Philippe Paris

Adolphe Menjou
Gen. George Broulard

George Macready
Gen. Paul Mireau

Wayne Morris
Lt. Roget/Singing man

Richard Anderson
Maj. Saint-Auban

Joe Turkel
Pvt. Pierre Arnaud

Christiane Kubrick
German Singer

Jerry Hausner
Proprietor of Cafe

Peter Capell
Narrator of Opening Sequence
Paths of Glory is a war, drama film released in 1957 exploring themes of army, france, based on novel or book, general, germany, world war i. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, it stars Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou. A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
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