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All Quiet on the Western Front [DVD] [1930] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Lew Ayres
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  • Actors: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
  • Directors: Lewis Milestone
  • Writers: Lewis Milestone, C. Gardner Sullivan, Del Andrews, Erich Maria Remarque, George Abbott
  • Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: 5 Jan 1999
  • Run Time: 136 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 0783230435
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 130,749 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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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 stagy 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, All Quiet on the Western Front 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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5.0 out of 5 stars The film to end all wars!, 26 Jun 2000
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This review is from: All Quiet On The Western Front [VHS] [1930] (VHS Tape)
The fact that this film is old doesn't take away it's message, perhaps it even enhances it.

We are all human and war is futile.

I first saw this film as a child and remember it so clearly, the message it gave!

Even more potent as I am English and the plot is based around German soldiers. All our children should watch this film so that the message passes to the next generation. I bought it so that I can show my children when they are old enough.

A classic film, an absolute must.

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2 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Where is the army with the condos?, 13 Sep 2001
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Quiet On The Western Front [VHS] [1930] (VHS Tape)
Now you may call this a pacifist or anti war movie if you like. Others may think this has something to do with an enemy's view of war. Others want to pick on the film because it is not the book.

Personally I think it is more of a, don't get over zealous movie. At least don't let some one mesmerize you. It even happened in a contemporary film "Private Benjamin (1980)" . She was promised the army with the private condos. Again we see the zealous ones in "Starship Troopers (1997)" .

As far as the rating it is ridicules to compare a movie that has to pass censors and only has 130 minutes with the book. Naturally the book is going to be more thorough and descriptive. What we can compare it to is the original movie "Westfront 1918 (1930)" directed by George Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) and "All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)" . Do not let my comments stop you from checking them all out including the audiocassette of the book .

The point was made much clearer in "Westfront 1918" even though is shorter it is the 5 star movie. Especially when we return to the schoolroom to see the teacher inspiring the next generation of students to become soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) however is easier to understand. You can spend more time in the message and less on the translation from German. In either film the actual down time drove me crazy as I remembered the time that we were not fighting or planning something in Viet Nam was when I got antsy. The 1979 movie is a boring TV type movie with "Johnboy" Richard Thomas, playing the part of Karl. The only good part is when he got shot.

"Im Western Nichts Neues" By Remarque: "He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the western Front."

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2 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars elvis and me(i), 29 Oct 2003
This review is from: All Quiet On The Western Front [VHS] [1930] (VHS Tape)
i have been trying for hrs to find a video that the actor kurt russell stared in about elvis presley kurt played the part of elvis all the way through the film it was on tv a long time ago and i am going nuts because i was told it exsist but no one seems to know where i can get it i have looked in all of the video section on kurt and elvis

please help

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