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March 23, 2023… #movieoftheday is All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
“ 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 , Arnold Lucy , and Ben Alexander .
All Quiet on the Western Front 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. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film. In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress ' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director . It is the first Best Picture winner based on a novel.
Its sequel, The Road Back (1936), portrays members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war. “ – #wikipedia
In high school, we were lucky enough to study the American War of Independence, the French Revolution, the First World War, the
Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, essentially, the emergence and preservation of liberty, equality and human rights. BBC TV aired All Quiet on the Western Front in 1980, when we were studying WWI, and made compulsive viewing. After all, the First World War ended in 1918 and was still fresh in people’s minds in 1930.
#movie #history
“ 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 , Arnold Lucy , and Ben Alexander .
All Quiet on the Western Front 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. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film. In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress ' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director . It is the first Best Picture winner based on a novel.
Its sequel, The Road Back (1936), portrays members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war. “ – #wikipedia
In high school, we were lucky enough to study the American War of Independence, the French Revolution, the First World War, the
Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, essentially, the emergence and preservation of liberty, equality and human rights. BBC TV aired All Quiet on the Western Front in 1980, when we were studying WWI, and made compulsive viewing. After all, the First World War ended in 1918 and was still fresh in people’s minds in 1930.
#movie #history
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