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Reserve your tickets here.For information about the Lewis Milestone Double Feature on March 16, click here.Director of such classic films as Two Arabian Knights (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Front Page (1931), Of Mice and Men (1939), The Red Pony (1949) and Pork Chop Hill (1959), Lewis Milestone (1895 – 1980) rose from a humble Russian-Jewish background to become one of ...
Jul 30, 2020 · Lewis Milestone helped legitimize the earlier talkies in the 1930’s- specifically with his big movie- All Quiet on the Western Front (for years held as one of the all-time great films). Milestone is an important figure to this time of transition in cinema’s history (when many, if not most, thought (and still do) that silent cinema was ...
Lewis Milestone's passionately anti-war document of 1930, based on Erich Maria Remarque's novel, is an ambitious epic of tremendous sweep and scope, with trench-warfare battle scenes comparable to ...
Died Sept. 25, 1980 in UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, CA. L ewis Milestone was the director of the original production of the motion picture classic "All Quiet on the Western Front." During his film career, spanning more than 40 years from the silent movie days, Milestone twice won an Academy Award for directing.
Lew Ayres (left) and Raymond Griffith in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), directed by Lewis Milestone. (more) For several days the company is pinned down in a bunker as shells explode around them. When part of the bunker collapses, Kemmerick flees and is hit in the leg. After the shelling finally stops, the soldiers move forward into the ...
Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director.
Lewis Milestone. Lewis Milestone was born into a Jewish family in Bessarabia, Russia, on 30th September, 1895. He emigrated to the United States in 1912. During the First World War he enlisted in the U.S. Signal Corps and was employed as an assistant director on Army training films. After the war he went to Hollywood, where he first worked as a ...
