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Paths of Glory, the classic 1957 Stanley Kubrick anti-war World War I (WWI) France courtroom military court-martial melodrama ("Never has the screen thrust so deeply into the guts of war!"; "It goes where none has ever gone before ...the shattering story of a commander trapped with the enemy in front of him ...and betrayal at his back!"; "Bombshell!"; "Explosive!"; "The behind-the-battle story of the boldest bayonet-charge that ever hacked its way through hell... And the men who came back from it - to face their general's firing squad!"; "The Most Explosive Picture in 25 Years!"; "'Shoot the whole damn regiment!', screamed the General... And now the Colonel had to do it!"; "It explodes in the no-man's land no picture ever dared cross before!"; "Bombshell! The roll of the drums... The click of the rifle-bolts... The last cigarette... And then... The shattering impact of this story... Perhaps the most explosive motion picture in 25 years!"; "Now the screen blasts open the bombshell story of a Colonel who led his regiment into hell and back - while their maddened General waited for them - with a firing squad!"; "Based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb"; "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson" [famed film noir novelist]; about French soldiers in World War I who refused to advance in a suicide mission, and a crazy general orders his artillery to fire on his own troops, but they refuse, and the advance is a disaster, and the general orders three random men tried for cowardice) starring Kirk Douglas (as Col. Dax), Ralph Meeker (as Cpl. Philippe Paris), Adolphe Menjou (as Gen. George Broulard), George Macready (as Gen. Paul Mireau), Wayne Morris (as Lt. Roget), Richard Anderson (as Maj. Saint-Auban), Emile Meyer (in one of the screen's all-time great performances!; as Father Dupree), Joe Turkel (as Pvt. Arnaud), Timothy Carey (as Pvt. Maurice Ferol), and Susanne Christian (as the girl who sings at the end of the movie). Note that in 1955, Kubrick found an excellent book, "Clean Break" by Lionel White, which he renamed "The Killing", and he hired pulp writer Jim Thompson to adapt the book's scenes. Kubrick released the movie with the credit "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick" and "Additional Dialogue by Jim Thompson", but there are many who believe that Thompson essentially wrote the entire script. Kubrick mended his fences with Thompson and hired Thompson to write the screenplay for "Paths of Glory", but producer Kirk Douglas was unhappy with Thompson's screenplay, especially the "happy" ending. Kubrick hired Calder Willingham to rewrite Thompson's screenplay, and the screenwriting credit read "Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, and Calder Willingham". Willingham claimed it was almost entirely his screenplay and sued Kubrick over the credits, but Thompson was able to show that large portions of his original screenplay remained in the final shooting script. Finally, note that this movie was released on Christmas Day in 1957 (it sure seems like an odd "Christmas" movie!). But that was surely to qualify for the 1957 Academy Awards. This is especially ironic, since this masterful movie not only did not win any Academy Awards, but it also wasn't even nominated for any Oscars! The posters for the movie are all dated 1958, but they are from the first general release, and if there are any 1957 posters for the one week that it played in 1957, we have never seen any!
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Important Added Info: Note that this script has been personally autographed (signed) by Jerry Hausner (he signed it at the bottom of the #1 page, and he also signed the German photo as well)! This script is really fascinating, for multiple reasons! First, it is the personal copy of actor Jerry Hausner, who, in the final version of the film, played the owner of the bar in the very final scene of the movie where Susanne Christian sings (Kubrick added this scene at the very last minute, and the fact that it does not appear in this third draft proves for certain that it was added afterward). However, Hausner was originally hired to play a very minor role as a soldier named Pvt. Meyer, who only had a small amount of dialog. But when the ending of the movie was altered, Kubrick selected Hausner to play the bar owner who coaxes Susanne Christian to sing, and Hausner switched parts! So in this script, which was Hausner's copy when the movie was first being filmed, he circled his dialog as Pvt. Meyer, and added notations to the script, including a list on the title page of the dates he would be involved in filming, and his name was written on the cover. But then, when the ending was altered and his part was switched to the bar owner (called "M.C." in the script), he was given revised pages 120 through 123 that were paper clipped together with a call sheet, and he circled his M.C. dialog on those revised pages (and if you are wondering what happened to Pvt. Myer, the few scenes with his character were cut out, although he is mentioned at the court martial)! In addition to the script and the revision pages is a 7 1/4" x 9 1/2" German photo of Hausner as M.C. that was signed by him in 1990. So this is a wonderful script owned by an actor in the movie, with his personal notations, but what makes it just as wonderful is that it contains the initial REVISED ending to the movie, which is not what was in the final film (I have seen it referenced, but I have not seen this revised ending in print anywhere). Apparently the first script had the ending that is in the filmed version of the movie. However, Kubrick thought it too downbeat that the soldiers were executed, and ordered this revised ending. In it, the general played by Menjou DOES pardon the men (because of the blackmail from the colonel played by Douglas), and afterwards, they are walking down the street, and a soldier who does not know that the executions were halted comes up and kills the general! But Kirk Douglas, who was the producer thought this hurt the movie, and ordered the original ending restored. But this third draft does contain that revised ending that was not used! The script does NOT contain the restored filmed ending (as added revision pages), because neither of Hausner's characters appeared in it. However, it DOES contain the added final scene that Hausner does appear in (as noted above)! Note that our consignor obtained this from a man who was a longtime associate of Hausner's, who obtained it (and the signed photo) in 1990, three years before Hausner died, and we are 100% certain it is authentic. This script is the third draft and the screenplay was written by Stanley Kubrick, Jim Thompson, and Calder Willingham (see our description of the movie above for much more about the writing of the screenplay!). The movie was filmed in Germany by Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corp., and the script has a German address for the production company on the cover and the photo from the movie has a German stamp on the back, and the supplemental call sheets have German shooting locations.

Note: We have 13 images of the movie scripts in this set, but due to a space limitation, only TEN of the 13 images are displayed above. However, there is a "supersize" link to the right of those images that lets you see the other 3.

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