![]() ![]() In bringing Paths to the screen, Douglas, screenwriters Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson, and writer/director Kubrick conflated several of Humphrey Cobb's characters into Colonel Dax, who figures much less prominently in the novel. The film Paths of Glory was a star vehicle for Kirk Douglas, who also played a major part in producing it. So a little back-comparison is necessary. Yet since 1957 almost no-one has read Paths of Glory before seeing Stanley Kubrick's film. It's common in film criticism to compare a movie to its literary source, but it seems kind of backward to compare a novel to a film derived from it decades later (long after its author's 1944 death). ![]() In the case of Paths of Glory, Penguin Classics is trying to balance the scales by publishing and promoting a new paperback version of Humphrey Cobb's 1935 novel. Laura, The Night of the Hunter, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate are known almost solely from their screen versions. ![]() Several great films are based on now-obscure novels. Lection home authors titles dates links about ![]()
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