All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Name: All Quiet on the Western Front
Released: 1930
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander

• Movies, Drama, War

• 133 min

7.8

They left for war as boys never to return as men.

Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Casting: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk, Owen Davis Jr., Walter Rogers, William Bakewell, Russell Gleason, Richard Alexander, Harold Goodwin, Slim Summerville, G. Pat Collins, Beryl Mercer, Edmund Breese, Ernie Adams, Marion Clayton Anderson, Poupée Andriot, Vince Barnett, Daisy Belmore, Glen Boles, Heinie Conklin, Yola d'Avril, Renée Damonde, Arthur Gardner, Raymond Griffith, Ellen Hall, William Irving, Frederick Kohner, Frank Leichtfried, Tom London, Bertha Mann, Joan Marsh, Edwin Maxwell, Jack McHugh, Maurice Murphy, Robert Parrish, Bodil Rosing, Wolfgang Staudte, Jack Sutherland, David Tyrell, Dorothy Vernon, Fred Zinnemann
Countries: United States of America
Premiere: 1930-04-29
Status: Released

Tags: friendship, army, based on novel or book, germany, disillusion, world war i, steel helmet, patriotism, boot camp, battlefield, atrocity, black and white, soldier, combat, warfare, death, pre-code, anti war, mud, trenches, young soldier, battlefield trauma, philosophical depiction of war

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.