ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

 

Lew Ayers, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Slim Summerville

Universal Pictures; Directed by Lewis Milestone

Black and White; Not Rated; 103 minutes; 1930

 

A realistic anti-war epic based on the pacifist novel by Erich Maria Remarque.  Seven German youths enthusiastically join the German army after a professor preaches the glories of war. The boys realize how horrific war really is when they reach the battlefield.

 

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"Vivid, moving, eloquent. Time hasn't dimmed its power, or its poignancy, one bit."

- Leonard Maltin