Paths Of Glory (1957) Kirk Douglas and his up-and-coming director Stanley Kubrick chat on Paths Of Glory’s battle-scarred set, an easier and more cordial partnership than their next film together, Spartacus. Paths’ shoot took place in the German countryside near Munich with a farmer’s field dug up and battered by 60 crew members into a replica of the Great War trenches. Trivia we’ve just made up: Kubrick and Douglas had this fag break 47 times before the director was satisfied.