All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
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Features
• Black & White
• Dolby
• Full Screen
• Original recording remastered
• Restored
• NTSC
In Theaters : 24 August, 1930
DVD Release : 06 February, 2007 |
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics) description
If a classic movie can be measured by the number of indelible images it burns into the collective imagination, then All Quiet on the Western Front's status is undisputed. Since its release in 1930 (and Oscar win for best picture), this film's saga of German boys avidly signing up for World War I battle--and then learning the truth of war--has be ... review details
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics) Customer Reviews
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STILL RELATIVE AFTER 77 YEARS!!
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| Based on the best selling novel of the same title by Erich Maria Remarque, it is based on his personal experience during WWI. But it is a story for all time, all nations and all wars. Just a reminder, that though the U.S. entered the war late, we still lost 120,000 soldiers in the waning months of the war. The film begins with German soldiers marching triumphantly through a German city with dozens of young women running up to hug and kiss the young men. As the camera pans back you see that you are looking through the windows of a university classroom out onto the streets. The older professor lecturing to the all male class begins to talk of patriotism and giving one's life for the Fatherland. Before long, the entire class (except one who reluctantly joins in later) is shouting and singing patriotic slogans and songs. They all march down to enlist thinking among other things that this will be a great way to avoid class for awhile, that this is just a matter of having some fun and picking up where they left off down the road. The first rude awakening is reporting to their quarters and discovering their CO is the postman in their area who has just been called up. Thinking he's there for fun, also, they quickly learn he's as mean and tough as any CO. It goes downhill from there as they go through basic training and are assigned to that earthly version of hell called trench warfare. Long periods of boredom in a bunker followed by intense bursts of violent combat and dealing with the injuries and psychological wounds incurred. The movie is not about WHY they went to war, it is simply showing the incredible horror of war and when it is waged that the lives of those involved are forever changed. It is said that some countries would prohibit the showing of this when they were preparing for war because of the impact it made on people's thinking about war. A classic. WWW.LUSREVIEWS.BLOGSPOT.COM |
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