Everyone should watch “Paths Of Glory”. Sums up the entire insanity of the war right there.
Ace in the Hole, 1951 with Kirk Douglas
He plays a amoral newspaper man. Nothing has changed.
Snip: A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to re-jump start his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
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