All Quiet on the Western Front

Produced by Universal Pictures, released April 21, 1930, budget $1.2 million, Black and White 35mm negative, 1.33 : 1 screen ratio, mono sound, 131 mins., DVD released 1999

 

Production:

• Directed by Lewis Milestone
• Screenplay by George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson, and Del Andrews, from the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque, who had been a German soldier in WWI
• Produced by Carl Laemmle Jr.
• Cinematography by Arthur Edeson
• Film Editing by Edgar Adams
• Sound Editing by C. Roy Hunter
• Art Direction by Charles D. Hall

Cast:

• Lew Ayres as Paul Baumer
• William Bakewell as Albert Kropp
• Ben Alexander as Franz Kemmerich
• Scott Kolk as Leer
• Russell Gleason as Muller
• Owen Davis Jr. as Peter
• Walter Rogers as Behm
• Arnold Lucy as Prof. Kantorek
• John Wray as Sgt. Himmelstoss, the postman
• Louis Wolheim as Sgt. "Kat" Katczinsky, the scavenger
• Richard Alexander as veteran Westhus
• Harold Goodwin as veteran Detering
• Slim Summerville as veteran Tjaden
• Pat Collins as Lt. Bertinck
• Beryl Mercer as Mother Baumer
• Edmund Breese as Father Muller

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title:  All Quiet on the Western Front
• Review from Tim Dirks
• All Quiet On The Western Front Information Page

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