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All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)

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Director:

Lewis Milestone

Starring:

Lew Ayres, John Wray, Louis Wolheim, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander

Genres:

US Classics, Great Literature on Film, Drama Classics, Action-Adventure, War

Origin:

USA

Certificate:

PG

Languages:

English

Running Time:

128 min

All Quiet On The Western Front

synopsis


Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact. Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilizing for war. The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment. As the central character Paul Baumer declares, "We live in the trenches and we fight. We try not to be killed--that's all." All Quiet is an anthology of now famous scenes: Ayres trapped in a shell crater with a man he has killed; the first meeting of the recruits and the veterans; infantrymen being mowed down to machine-gun visual rhythms; a moonlight swim with French farm girls; Ayre's pacifist speech to his astonished schoolmates; and the final shot of the soldier's hand reaching for a fatal butterfly.

 
 

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