All Quiet On The Western Front Blu-ray

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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately Lewis Milestone&s low-key unpolished & deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilising for war The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment As the central character Paul Baumer (Lew Ayres) declares " We live in the trenches & we fight We try not to be killed
- that&s all" All Quiet On The Western Front is an anthology of now famous scenes Ayres trapped in a shell crater with a man he has killed; the first meeting of the recruits & the veterans; infantrymen being mowed down to machine-gun visual rhythms; a moonlight swim with French farm girls; Ayres& pacifist speech to his astonished schoolmates; & the final shot of the soldier&s hand reaching for the butterfly Actors Louis Wolheim John Wray & Slim Summerville Director Lewis Milestone Certificate 12 years & over Year 1930 Screen 1331 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio Mono Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired; French; Italian; German; Spanish; Japanese Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hour & 13 minutes (approx)