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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 all but 28 of the folded one-sheets in this Part I of eMoviePoster.com's December Major Auction were consigned to us by legendary French dealer/collector Dominique Besson.

Dominique Besson started collecting movie posters in 1981, and became a dealer in French and European posters in 1994, and has remained as a top dealer ever since!

But in addition, 30 years ago, Dominique began collecting U.S. one-sheets, first those with Saul Bass art, and then adding Alfred Hitchcock posters, then Humphrey Bogart, and he finally ended up collecting in an amazing total of 47 different categories, purchasing the posters from all over the world!

Now the time has come to sell this wonderful collection, and Dominique has chosen eMoviePoster.com to do so, through our auctions!

As noted above, all but 28 of the folded one-sheets in this Part I come from this more remarkable collection (the 28 that do not were consigned to us by other collectors, and are clearly marked).

This is not all of the Dominique Besson collection we are auctioning. In addition, there are approximately 200 more folded one-sheets that will be in Part IV of this special auction (ones from the 1970s to present), and there are approximately 100 unfolded one-sheets that will be in Part III (including many great ones).

This is a very rare opportunity to purchase folded one-sheets (all of which have had no professional restoration) from one of the greatest one-sheet collections assembled!

Note that this one-sheet is from the category that Dominique Besson collected on that he labeled "Stanley Kubrick".

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