All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)
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| Directed by | Lewis Milestone |
| Produced by | Carl Laemmle, Jr. |
| Written by |
Maxwell Anderson (adaptation & dialogue) George Abbott (screenplay) Del Andrews (adaptation) C. Gardner Sullivan (supervising story chief) |
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque |
| Starring |
Lew Ayres Louis Wolheim |
| Music by | David Broekman |
| Cinematography | Arthur Edeson |
| Edited by | Edgar Adams |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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152 minutes 133 minutes (restored) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.2 million |
| Box office | $1.5 million (US) $3,000,000(rentals) |
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front is considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, and made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1998. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,500 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film. In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director.
Its sequel, The Road Back (1937), shows members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war.
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers—and that's all."
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