UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

DeAGOSTINI

PRESENTS

''ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT''

(THE ORIGINAL FROM 1930)

FROM

THE CLASSIC WAR MOVIE COLLECTION

CWMCN38

Unlike most "message" films, which date themselves almost immediately,

Lewis Milestone's low-key, unpolished and deeply-felt screen adaption

of the Erich Mari Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original

impact.  Years after its release, it was still being banned in countries

mobilizing for war.

The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through

their passage from idelism to disillusionment.  As the central character

Paul Baumer (Lewis Ayres) declares, 

"We live in the trenches and we fight.  We try not to be killed - that's all"  

All Quiet on the Western Front is an anthology of now famous scenes:  

Ayres trapped in a shell crater with a man he has killed; 

the first meeting of the recruits and the veterans; 

infantrymen being mowed down to machine-gun visual rhythms;

a moonlight swim with French farm girls;

Ayres' pacifist speech to astonished schoolboys;

and the final shot of the soldier's hand reaching for a fatal butterfly.

1930 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

PRESENTS

"ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT"

THE ORIGINAL

STARRING:  LEWIS AYRES, LOUIS WOLHEIM

WITH JOHN WRAY, SLIM SUMMERVILLE,  WILLIAM BAKEWELL

A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION

PRODUCED BY CARL LAEMMLE, JR.

DIRECTED BY LEWIS MILESTONE

NOVEL BY ERICH MARIA REMARQUE

DIALOGUE BY MAXWELL ANDERSON AND GEORGE ABBOTT

ADAPTION BY MAXWELL ANDERSON

SCREEN STORY BY GEORGE ABBOTT

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARTHUR EDESON

BLACK AND WHITE - PAL - ASPECT RATIO 1.33:1 FULL FRAME - REGION 4 -

 DVD VIDEO FROM 1930 

LANGUAGE:  ENGLISH 2.0 MONO

SUBTITLES:  ENGLISH FOR HEARING IMPAIRED

APPROX DURATION - 128 MINUTES

THIS FILM IS FROM THE DeAGOSTINI "THE CLASSIC WAR MOVIE COLLECTION".

A COLLECTION OF THE GREATEST WAR FILMS EVER PRODUCED!

THIS ONE IS NUMBERED CWMCN38