All quiet on the Western front
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Traces the adventures of seven young boys entering the German Imperial Army in 1914. Based on the novel ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Eric Marie Remarque.
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland" The boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss. The new recruits are assigned to a unit composed of older soldiers, who are not exactly accommodating. Paul is given a furlough and visits his family at home. He is shocked by how uninformed everyone is about the situation of the war.
Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland" The boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss. The new recruits are assigned to a unit composed of older soldiers, who are not exactly accommodating. Paul is given a furlough and visits his family at home. He is shocked by how uninformed everyone is about the situation of the war.
Credits
- Directed by
- Lewis Milestone
- Written by
- Lewis Milestone, Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, C. Gardner Sullivan
- Cast
- Fred Zinnemann, Wolfgang Staudte, Louis Wolheim, ZaSu Pitts, Lew Ayres, Edwin Maxwell, Ben Alexander, Robert Parrish, Joan Marsh, Russell Gleason, Arnold Lucy, Arthur Gardner, John Wray, Beryl Mercer, Slim Summerville, Frederick Kohner, Edmund Breese, G. Pat Collins …
- Produced by
- Carl Laemmle, Carl Laemmle Jr.
- Cinematography
- Karl Freund, Arthur Edeson, Tony Gaudio
- Edited by
- Edgar Adams
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