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All Quiet on the Western Front - Lewis Milestone

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Directed by: 
Lewis Milestone
Story by: 
Erich Maria Remarque
Del Andrews
Maxwell Anderson
Walter Anthony
Screenplay by: 
Maxwell Anderson
George Abbott
Lewis Milestone
C. Gardner Sullivan
Produced by: 
Carl Laemmle, Jr.
Release year: 
1930
Country: 
United States of America
Runtime: 
138min
Genre: 
War film
Action Film
Drama
Music by: 
Heinz Eric Roemheld
Sam Perry
Subjects: 
World War I
Tagline: 
At last....the motion picture!
Plot: 
This is an English language film (made in America) adapted from a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of individuals. As the boys witness death and mutilation all around them, any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear, leaving them angry and bewildered. This is highlighted in the scene where Paul mortally wounds a French soldier and then weeps bitterly as he fights to save his life while trapped in a shell crater with the body. The film is not about heroism but about drudgery and futility and the gulf between the concept of war and the actuality.
Cast: 
Louis Wolheim
as
Kat
Lew Ayres
as
Paul
Beryl Mercer
as
Paul's Mother
Owen Davis, Jr.
as
Peter
Scott Kolk
as
Leer
John Wray
as
Himmelstoss
Russell Gleason
as
Mueller
G. Pat Collins
as
Bertinck
Walter Rogers
as
Behn
Richard Alexander
as
Westhus
Slim Summerville
as
Tjaden
Harold Goodwin
as
Detering
Arnold Lucy
as
Kantorek
Ben Alexander
as
Kemmerich
William Bakewell
as
Albert
Edmund Breese
as
Herr Meyer
ZaSu Pitts
as
Frau Bäumer
(
Silent Version Trailer only (scenes deleted)
)
Ernie Adams
as
2nd Medic Orderly
Marion Clayton Anderson
as
Anna Bäumer
Poupée Andriot
as
French Girl #1
Vince Barnett
as
Assistant Cook
Daisy Belmore
as
Frau Kemmerick
Glen Boles
as
Young Soldier
Heinie Conklin
as
Joseph Hammacher
Yola d'Avril
as
Suzanne
Renée Damonde
as
French Girl #2
Arthur Gardner
as
Student
Raymond Griffith
as
Gérard Duval
Ellen Hall
as
Young Girl
William Irving
as
Ginger
(
The Cook
)
Frederick Kohner
(
Minor Role
)
Frank Leichtfried
(
Minor Role
)
Tom London
as
1st Medic Orderly
Bertha Mann
as
Sister Libertine
Joan Marsh
as
Poster Girl
Edwin Maxwell
as
Herr Bäumer
Jack McHugh
as
Schoolboy #1
Maurice Murphy
as
Soldier #1
Robert Parrish
as
Schoolboy #2
Bodil Rosing
as
Mother of Hospital Patient
Wolfgang Staudte
(
Minor Role
)
Jack Sutherland
(
Minor Role
)
David Tyrell
as
Soldier #2
Dorothy Vernon
as
Charwoman
Fred Zinnemann
(
Minor Role
)

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