[link|http://www.imdb.com/Title?Paths+of+Glory+(1957)|Paths of Glory]. This review also seems to supply a little extra depth. "The Wall", Eisenhower years..
If 'National Honor' was dripping away with every gaffe by this foul-tongued Texan before, how much worse can it become - when he opens an artery? and those new nuclear 'bunker busters' start appearing plentifully.
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