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All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Lewis Milestone , it stars Lew Ayres , Louis Wolheim , John Wray , Slim Summerville , and William Bakewell .
All Quiet on the Western Front: Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy. A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
May 28, 2016 · All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic Pre-Code war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
Oct 28, 2022 · You can stream the 1930, 1979 and 2022 versions of 'All Quiet on the Western Front.' Here's where to find them, with excerpts from Times coverage.
The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young...
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A war film far ahead of its time, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) tells the story of a group of German schoolboys inspired by their nationalistic teacher to sign up for battle. But boyhood fantasies of crisply uniformed soldiers fighting for the glory of the Fatherland in WWI are soon dimmed by the bitter, grotesque reality of war.
Reality begins to set in at the training depot where their one-time amiable local postman is now their demanding training instructor. Soon shipped to the front, they face the daily challenge of surviving trench warfare and killing on a scale that they could never have imagined.
