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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Directed by Lewis Milestone

War | Drama

Overview

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during World War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.

Rated PG | Length 133 minutes

Actors

Louis Wolheim | Lew Ayres | John Wray | Arnold Lucy | Ben Alexander | Scott Kolk | Owen Davis Jr. | Walter Rogers | William Bakewell | Russell Gleason | Richard Alexander | Harold Goodwin | Slim Summerville | G. Pat Collins | Beryl Mercer | Edmund Breese | Ernie Adams | Marion Clayton Anderson | Poupée Andriot | Vince Barnett | Daisy Belmore | Glen Boles | Heinie Conklin | Yola d'Avril | Renée Damonde | Arthur Gardner | Raymond Griffith | Ellen Hall | William Irving | Frederick Kohner | Frank Leichtfried | Tom London | Bertha Mann | Joan Marsh | Edwin Maxwell | Jack McHugh | Maurice Murphy | Robert Parrish | Bodil Rosing | Wolfgang Staudte | Jack Sutherland | David Tyrell | Dorothy Vernon | Fred Zinnemann

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Viewing Notes

Unreal that this was released in 1930. There is one battle scene w/an explosion that is just as gruesome today as it was back then (probably worse then). I had to rewind it because I couldn’t believe it. Powerful movie. Wish it had actually been in German / used German actors / at least had German accents on the actors. Doesn’t detract that much but this could’ve easily been American soldiers going thru the same horrifying experience on the frontline. Devastating ending.

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