Safe in their picturesque chateau behind the front lines, the French general staff passes down a direct order to Colonel Dax: take the Ant Hill at any cost. Their commanding officer refuses to continue the suicidal attack and Dax attempts to defend the soldiers against a charge of cowardice in a court-martial.
12 August 1917, Zahle, Lebanon
15 July 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
18 February 1890, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
29 August 1899, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
17 January 1921, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
9 December 1916, Amsterdam, New York, USA
17 February 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 September 1912, Berlin, Germany
11 March 1929, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
18 August 1910, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
20 May 1909, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
10 May 1932, Brunswick, Germany
3 November 1919, The Bronx, New York, USA
21 November 1920, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
8 August 1926, Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
August 3, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA
September 23, 2016
High on tension, low on fat and fully deserving of its reputation as one of the finest war films ever made.
March 26, 2013
The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.
May 08, 2007
While the subject is well handled and enacted in a series of outstanding characterizations, it seems dated and makes for grim screen fare.
March 26, 2013
More than 20 years after Mr. Cobb's novel was first published, Mr. Kubrick reminded us that human folly is rarely checked for long. A half-century on, he is still right.
May 08, 2007
This masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist.
May 02, 2014
A reminder both of [Kubrick's] extraordinary formal virtuosity and his powers as a satirist.
May 02, 2014
Kirk Douglas and Timothy Carey are outstanding among the troops on the front line, while Kubrick's relentlessly probing camera offers constant evidence of a film-maker at the height of his powers.
October 28, 2014
Classic Kubrick film with complex, heavy, anti-war themes.
June 02, 2015
Those who are used to 2001: A Space Odyssey or A Clockwork Orange will initially find this black-and-white First World War drama starring Kirk Douglas rather traditional, until its radical content is revealed.
May 01, 2014
It is arguably the best film about the first world war, and still has a reasonable claim to being Stanley Kubrick's best film.
March 26, 2013
Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest performances as the intelligent and courageous Col. Dax.
June 24, 2006
The final scene, in which Kubrick presents close-ups of soldiers watching a captured German girl being forced to sing for their pleasure is nothing short of masterful.
