One of Stanley Kubrick's earliest films, Paths of Glory is a seminal anti-war movie. Set during the First World War, the French general staff give the order for Colonel Dax (Douglas) and his men to attack a particularly well fortified German position. The order is little more than authorised suicide and when the remanants of Dax's men return, the high command, looking for something to distact from their murderous incompetence, decide to court-martial three of the surviving soldiers. The outra find out more...
Smooth, but low end operator Mickey Haller is chauffeured around Los Angeles in his Lincoln, cutting deals and finding clients in his four wheeled office. Then he lands a doozy: a rich real-estate heir accused of the brutal assault of an escort. At first, the case looks like a money spinning breeze, but odd details start nagging at Haller until he recognizes an ugly connection to an earlier case, and with it the realisation that he's been set up. This is a movie that cruises on charm and smar find out more...
Newman is in Oscar winning form as a drinking, failing lawyer who insists on taking a no-hope malpractice case to trial rather than accepting a handsome out of court settlement. Castigated by those around him he seems on the road to failure, but, against all good sense, he keeps on trying and goes for broke. Convincing rather than realistic, emotive rather than analytical, this is a devastating judgement on the US judical system.
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