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All Quiet on the Western Front

  The Film:
 
from Universal Pictures

Directed by
Lewis Milestone

Starring
Lew Ayres (Paul Baumer)
Louis Wolheim (Katczinsky)
John Wray (Himmelstoss)
Slim Summerville (Tjaden)
Arnold Lucy (Kantorek)
William Bakewell (Albert)
Ben Alexander (Kemmerick)
Scott Kolk (Leer)
Owen Davis Jr. (Peter)
Walter Rodgers (Behm)
Russell Gleason (Muller)
Richard Alexander (Westhus)
Harold Goodwin (Detering)
G. Pat Collins (Lieutenant Bertinck)
Beryl Mercer (Mrs. Baumer)
Edmund Breese (Herr Meyer)
Poupée Andriot (French Girl)
Vince Barnett (Cook)
Daisy Belmore
Marion Clayton (Miss Baumer)
Heinie Conklin (Hammacher)
Yola D'Avril (Suzanne)
Renée Damonde (French girl)
Arthur Gardner (Student)
Raymond Griffith (Gerard Duval)
Bill Irving (Ginger)
Tom London (Orderly)
Bertha Mann (Sister Libertine)
Joan Marsh (Poster Girl)
Edwin Maxwell (Mr. Baumer)
Robert Parrish
ZaSu Pitts
Bodil Rosing (Wachter)
Fred Zinnemann

Written by
Erich Maria Remarque (novel)
George Abbott
Del Andrews
Maxwell Anderson
Walter Anthony
Lewis Milestone
 

All Quiet on the Western Front - (movie poster)In All Quiet on the Western Front, a group of German schoolboys, inspired by their professor to fight for their country, enlist in World War I. The film documents their descent into the grim realities of war in graphic detail, from the everyday reality of trench warfare to starvation and butchery. The film tracks the boys in training, battle, and eventually their untimely deaths.
 

Awards:

1929-30
Academy Award®
Best Picture
Best Director - Lewis Milestone

Books and more:


All Quiet on the Western Front [VHS]

All Quiet on the Western Front [DVD]

All Quiet on the Western Front (hardcover)
by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front (paperback)
by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front : The Illustrated Edition
by Erich Maria Remarque





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Filming All Quiet on the Western Front : 'Brutal Cutting, Stupid Censors, Bigoted Politicos'
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A Short History of World War I
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Almanac of World War I
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The First World War : A Complete History
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