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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher and sent to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
6 October 1907, New York City, New York, USA
18 June 1871, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 May 1908, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 July 1902, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
13 February 1887, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
19 November 1902, Dallas, Texas, USA
26 May 1911, Goldfield, Nevada, USA
3 January 1894, Parsons, Kansas, USA
28 December 1908, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
16 May 1905, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
10 July 1892, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
July 10, 1914 in Porterville, California, USA
March 24, 2014
It not only seeks to straddle the high dramatic of the silent era with the more staid aesthetics of the sound era, but it seeks to reveal wartime horror to such a heart-wrenching degree that it will undo war altogether.
February 11, 2013
The production values are incredibly high and not just for the time. And as the movie has aged and the film has gone grainier and the flickers increased, it almost adds to the effect.
October 16, 2007
A harrowing, gruesome, morbid tale of war.
May 25, 2012
The rawness of the audio eradicates any lingering notion that war is romantic or exciting, and at times suggests the very battered eardrums of those engaged in combat.
June 24, 2006
The film's strength now derives less from its admittedly powerful but highly simplistic utterances about war as waste, than from a generally excellent set of performances (Ayres especially) and an almost total reluctance to follow normal plot structure.
May 22, 2012
The despair-and the artistry-is breathtaking.
February 20, 2015
The performances are haunting.
October 16, 2007
Deserves its reputation as a classic.
January 13, 2014
The performances are also exemplary, but it is primarily a film of great moments -- the climactic sequence of the young conscript reaching out for a butterfly in the sun -- that, once seen, are never forgotten.
February 17, 2015
So magnificent, so powerful, that it hardly behooves mere words to tell of its heart-rending appeal, of its dramatic fire, its breath-taking battle shots in which men stab and kill each other, for the glory of war.
February 11, 2013
[A] fascinating, innovative early talkie.
