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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783230436
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783230435
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 05, 1999
Running Time: 130 minutes
Sales Rank: 35587
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1930
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This 1930 film, No. 54 on the AFI's Top 100 list, still holds up as a surprisingly forceful and honest antiwar drama. Indeed, the modern sensibility is almost as startling as the sometime stagey acting of Lew Ayres, which can be excused by the fact that, three years after the introduction of sound, actors were still applying stage techniques to talking pictures. Ayres plays a German college student during World War I, who is brainwashed into enlisting in the Army (along with the rest of his class) by a zealously inspirational college professor. Once in uniform and on the front lines, however, he quickly discovers that the glory of the Fatherland is of little concern to a soldier dodging bullets and explosions, whose comrades are dying in his arms. As powerful in its way as Platoon almost 60 years later, it remains a classic tale of young soldiers' confrontations with the possibility of imminent and arbitrary death. Director Lewis Milestone shows a surprising range of techniques in this film from the formative years of moviemaking with sound. --Marshall Fine
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I probably saw "All Quiet on the Western Front" for the first time in the mid 50's. I was a young boy at the time and saw it as an adventure film. I later saw it several times and, of course, its powerful anti-war atmosphere really struck home during the Vietnam era. I am now in the process of re-reading books and re-watching films from my younger days. The idea is to see the effect they have on me now. Both the book and the movie of "All Quiet on the Western Front" have more than held up. Set aside ... Read More
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This is a 1930 film production, faithfully based on Eric Marie Remarque's WWI novel by the same title. Considering the infancy of talkie film making when this was created, it is an absolutely remarkable piece. Many of the battle scene techniques have been recycled to this day.
I read the novel 3 or 4 years ago, and had forgotten that it was told from the German viewpoint (such is the universality of the war experience). The story is critical of war - though I personally believe that ... Read More
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a masterpiece of cinema. The movie released in 1930 is I think is the greatest movie made in a generation of movies that were making the transition from silent to talkies.
Several things make this a movie not to be missed.
1. The movie deals with WWI, and not to many movies portray this epic war, and those that do all fall behind this one.
2. The movie, like the book, show the war from a German point-of-view, which doesn't happen ... Read More
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The 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front staring Lew Ayres as Paul Baumer gives an accurate picture of the tragic loss of World War I. Eric Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel and the motion-picture that followed relates the story of young men who were manipulated by the rhetoric of their teacher into enlisting in the German army. They are told that to die for the "fatherland" was the most beautiful and precious way to die. They are also told to set aside their own personal ambitions and help Germany ... Read More
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It's hard to imagine how with movies like these made 70 years ago people are still duped by their leaders and thrown into needless wars. Considering the age of the movie its amazing how entertaining and pertinent it still is, special effects are very good, but don't expect Saving Private Ryan.
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