The film begins with a voiceover describing the trench warfare situation of World War I up to 1916. In a château, General Georges Broulard (Adolphe Menjou), a member of the French General Staff, asks his subordinate, the ambitious General Mireau (George Macready), to send his division on a suicide mission to take a well-defended German position called the “Anthill.”

• Paths of Glory
• Kirk Douglas
• Ralph Meeker
• Adolphe Menjou
• Stanley Kubrick