All Quiet on the Western Front

Based On the book by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Slim Summerville, and William Bakewell. The film opened to wide acclaim in the United States. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1997.

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Release date:

April 21, 1930

Director:

Lewis Milestone, Nate Watt

Cast:

Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander

Genre:

Drama, War, Anti-war

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1930 in adaptations