This film script created by Joel Sayre and William Faulkner with Nunnally Johnson, written because Darryl F. Zanuck had acquired the rights to a French film, Les Croix de Bois (1932), in order to use its battle sequences as stock footage, is as much prophetic truth as it is accurate history. Indeed, as George Garrett points out, The Road to Glory became "an allegory for our times." Aided by Howard Hawks's direction...