ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Lew Ayres – d: Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Direction: Lewis Milestone
Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews; from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel
Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Russell Gleason, John Wray, William Bakewell, Raymond Griffith, Beryl Mercer, Ben Alexander, Slim Summerville, Yola D’Avril
Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front
Synopsis:
World War I: A group of German schoolboys soon learn that war has absolutely nothing to do with either glory or heroics.
Pros:
Nearly eight decades after its release, All Quiet on the Western Front remains — in my ever-so-humble opinion — the best war movie ever made. From the first sequences when the German schoolboys are all eager to take up arms to fight for Fatherland, Honor, and Glory to the very last scenes [...]
by Andre Soares | November 28, 2009
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Best Films – 1930
Made at the dawn of the sound era, All Quiet on the Western Front remains the best war film ever made. Despite some brave (and not so brave) attempts by other filmmakers ever since, no other motion picture I’ve seen has captured the horrors of war with the honesty and the poignancy of Lewis Milestone’s rendition of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist novel. Lew Ayres plays the young, idealistic soldier who soon discovers that war has nothing to do with either honor or glory.
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