All Quiet on the Western Front Rating: Release Date: 02 September, 2003 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $10.99 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: Lew Ayres Lucy Russell Tom Arnold Jack Mercer Complete Cast (7 total)

All Quiet on the Western Front Reviews

---

A great lesson in early cinema
This is a fine adaptation, capturing the loss of innocence of wide-eyed, fasinated school boys going off on a grand journey, who get lost in the horrors of war. A fine lesson about WWI, it's sad to think that such memories would soon be forced upon a new generation.

This is also a fine example about our earlier cinema. With fewer special effects, great story telling is at a premium. But for this period, the effects are quite nice.

World War I, the story of a German soldier in the infantry
I saw a 1930 version on VHS, loaned from a public library. The whole movie is in English, spoken in US style. German is heard only when the soldiers are singing. The French women speak French. Keeping in mind that this movie was made in 1930, I still think it's a good movie. You might want to watch the more recent productions of it, if you don't want to tune off younger people with low interest in the subject. For example, in the scene with the French women, you assume and know that they made out, versus Hollywood movies these days, you'll see gratuitous nudity. This movie has all the elements of a good movie plot. It is an anti war film. The movie also plays out more like a play than what you would used to in a movie of current times.

More Customer Reviews (27 total)

You like All Quiet on the Western Front? Then You'll Love This Booty! The Grapes of Wrath It Happened One Night The Best Years of Our Lives All Quiet on the Western Front Mutiny on the Bounty Find more DVD's in: Action & Adventure Classics Drama Action & Adventure > Classics All Categories (19 total)