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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 mobilising 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 (Lew Ayres) 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; Ayres' pacifist speech to his astonished schoolmates; and the final shot of the soldier's hand reaching for the butterfly.
Special Features:
- Introduction by the U.S.'s Turner Classic Movies host and Film Historian Robert Osborne
- Theatrical trailer
- 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics – An in-depth look at the film restoration process
- 100 Years of Universal: Academy Award Winners
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Product DetailsCertificate:12Actor:Lew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WraySlim SummervilleDirector:Lewis MilestoneRegion:BAspect Ratio:1.33:1Number of Discs:1Main Language:EnglishRun Time:133 mins approx.studio:Universal PicturesTheatricalReleaseYear:1930Series:All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Description
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 mobilising 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 (Lew Ayres) 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; Ayres' pacifist speech to his astonished schoolmates; and the final shot of the soldier's hand reaching for the butterfly.
Special Features:
- Introduction by the U.S.'s Turner Classic Movies host and Film Historian Robert Osborne
- Theatrical trailer
- 100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics – An in-depth look at the film restoration process
- 100 Years of Universal: Academy Award Winners
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Product DetailsCertificate:12Actor:Lew AyresLouis WolheimJohn WraySlim SummervilleDirector:Lewis MilestoneRegion:BAspect Ratio:1.33:1Number of Discs:1Main Language:EnglishRun Time:133 mins approx.studio:Universal PicturesTheatricalReleaseYear:1930Series:All Quiet on the Western Front
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