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Auction History Result 6x1448 PATHS OF GLORY #2/225 18x24 art print 2012 Mondo, Alamo Drafthouse, Jay Shaw, first edition! Date Sold 12/14/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Limited Edition Art Print (with art by Jay Shaw; 2/225; measures 18" x 24" [46 x 61 cm]) (Learn More) 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! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Jay Shaw Important Added Info: Note that this art print has been hand-numbered 2/225! This is one of 2,346 auctions for Mondo/Alamo Drafthouse prints from the personal collection of Tim League, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Alamo Drafthouse! All 2,346 auctions begin on November 29th, and all close December 13th, starting at around 3:00 PM CST, a few seconds apart! All the prints are being auctioned by eMoviePoster.com, and will ship to the winning bidders from eMoviePoster.com, who WILL combine purchases into as few packages as possible (and they can also be combined with purchases from "non-Mondo" eMoviePoster.com auctions, only charging the actual cost of shipping, plus $3 for packing materials). Please know that 100% of the proceeds from the sale will go towards paying staff of the Alamo Drafthouse and paying debt and expenses accrued during the COVID closures. And eMoviePoster.com has slashed its commission rates, so that we too can do all we can to support this most worthwhile cause. Whether you are a prior collector of Mondo prints or if you have never purchased one of them before, you surely have a movie fan in your life who would like something unique under their Christmas tree this year (or maybe you want to give it to yourself!). Our deepest thanks to everyone who participates in this very special set of 2,346 auctions! Condition: fine. The limited edition art print is in wonderful condition! An important note about the condition of the print in this auction (or, in the case of 25 of the auctions, prints). It comes from the personal collection of Tim League, and it has been carefully stored since it was first printed. In the case of all but 46 of the 2,344 of the prints, it is in wonderful condition, and likely looks exactly as it did when it was printed, and we give all those our "fine" grade, which is the highest grade we give (and which equates to most dealers' "mint" grade). In the case of a very small number of the prints (46 in all!), it acquired one or more defects, and in those cases we give it a lower grade, and explain in words what those defects are. If you like purchasing limited edition prints in wonderful condition, THIS is the auction for you! Learn More about condition grades 
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