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About this movie

Genres:
Drama, Classics
Language:
English
Running time:
2:14:03
Partner rating:
NO RATING
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Quality:
480 (DVD equivalent)

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Lew Ayres Paul Baumer
  2. Louis Wolheim Katczinsky
  3. John Wray Himmelstoss
  4. Arnold Lucy
  5. Ben Alexander Kemmerick
  6. Slim Summerville
  7. Raymond Griffith Gerard Duval
  8. George "Slim" Summerville Tjaden
  9. William Bakewell Albert
  10. Russell Gleason Muller
  11. Scott Kolk Leer
  12. Walter Browne Rogers Behm

Directors

  1. Lewis Milestone

Producers

  1. Carl Laemmle
  2. Jr.
  3. Carl Laemmle, Jr.

Writers

  1. George Abbott
  2. Maxwell Anderson
  3. Del Andrews

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All Quiet on the Western Front

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One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World War I and are assigned to the Western Front, where their fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of combat. Director Lewis Milestone pioneered the use of the sweeping crane shot to capture a ghastly battlefield panorama of death and mud, and the cast, led by Le... One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever put on film, this gut-wrenching story concerns a group of friends who join the Army during World War I and are assigned to the Western Front, where their fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of combat. Director Lewis Milestone pioneered the use of the sweeping crane shot to capture a ghastly battlefield panorama of death and mud, and the cast, led by Lew Ayres, is terrific. It's hard to pick a favorite scene, but the finale, as Ayres stretches from his trench to catch a butterfly, is one of the most devastating sequences of the decade. The film won Oscars for Best Picture and for Milestone's direction -- and trivia buffs should note that the actors were coached by future luminary George Cukor, while Ayres became a conscientious objector in World War II. The Road Back (1937) followed, and the film was remade for television in 1979.

Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'fresh' by Rotten Tomatoes

97%Tomatometer score: 97% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Positive review
    Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine Despite a little dating around the edges this is a truly superb example of its genre and a cinema classic. Full review External link
  2. Positive review
    Variety Staff, Variety A harrowing, gruesome, morbid tale of war. Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader Deserves its reputation as a classic. Full review External link
  4. Positive review
    Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK] An ambitious epic of tremendous sweep and scope. Full review External link
  5. Positive review
    Geoff Andrew, Time Out The film's strength now derives less from its admittedly powerful but highly simplistic utterances about war as waste, than from a generally excellent set of performances (Ayres especially) and an... Full review External link

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