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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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From: Amazon Posted: Oct 28, 2008 Type: User Review Culpability...

True. The blood and gore of modern war films are absent, but so are the orchestrated scores, the heroes, and with them, the implicit glory of combat. The trench warfare and Maschinengewehr machine guns might be dated (along with the black and...
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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 10, 2008 Type: User Review Still a Classic

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...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 28, 2008 Type: User Review An Historical Icon

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...
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From: Amazon Posted: Jun 28, 2008 Type: User Review All Quiet Screams loudly the devestation of War

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.

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From: Amazon Posted: May 04, 2008 Type: User Review All Quiet On the Western Front: A Must See For Those Who Hate War-time Propaganda

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...
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