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Nov. 1, 2010

Reel Law

"The case made against these men is a mockery of all human justice. ... To find these men guilty would be a crime. ... I can't believe that the noblest impulse for man-his compassion for another-can be completely dead here. ... I humbly beg you to show mercy to these men."

- Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) pleads for the lives of three French soldiers during World War I in Paths of Glory (1957).


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