All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (Sound)

Please note: Purchase of a ticket to either the 4:00 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. screening of All Quiet on the Western Front allows admission to both.

"The League of Nations could make no better investment than to buy the master print, reproduce it in every nation to show every year until the word 'war' is taken out of the dictionary." - Variety

Full sound version.

Directed by Lewis Milestone

Near the heartbreaking finale of the sound version of Lewis Milestone’s anti-war epic All Quiet on the Western Front, a combat-weary Paul (Ayres) returns from battle on leave to be by his mother’s side where she offers him his favorite treat: blueberries. In the intertitle for the same scene in the synchronized music and effects track version, she offers him whortleberries. The difference is minor but nevertheless speaks volumes about the degree of care that went into producing the sync track version of Milestone’s masterpiece for international markets. Additional scenes, some reordered sequences and dialogue tweaks throughout indicate that the same care was taken in adapting Erich Maria Remarque’s novel to different forms of expression.

Universal Picture Corp. Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr. Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. Screenwriter: George Abbott. Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson. Editor:  Edgar Adams. Cast: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Ben Alexander, Scott Kolk. 

35mm, b/w, 143 min.

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