Eventually, they are sent back to the field kitchens to get their rations each man receives double helpings, simply because of the number of dead.Īd with book cover art in The Film Daily, 1929 A depiction of trench warfare follows with many casualties on both sides. The recruits' first trip to the trenches with the veterans is a harrowing experience, during which Behn is killed. Having not eaten in days, they pay cigarettes to Corporal 'Kat' Katzinsky (who has stolen a slaughtered hog from a field kitchen) in exchange for a meal.

The new soldiers are assigned to a unit composed of older, unwelcoming veterans. One in the group is killed before the recruits can reach their post, to the alarm of one of the new soldiers (Behn). The new soldiers arrive by train at the chaotic combat zone.

Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss. On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Bäumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and 'saving the Fatherland'.

Its sequel, The Road Back (1936), portrays members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war. It is the first Best Picture winner based on a novel. The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director. In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'.

A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years.100 Movies list in 1997. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, and Ben Alexander.Īll Quiet on the Western Front opened to wide acclaim in the United States. All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque.

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