All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic PreCode war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.

Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and saving the Fatherland. On the brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who bluntly informs them, Youre going to be soldiersand thats all.The new soldiers arrive by train at the combat zone, which is mayhem, with soldiers everywhere, incoming shells, horsedrawn wagons racing about, and prolonged rain. One in the group is killed before the new recruits can reach their post, to the alarm of one of the new soldiers Behn. The new soldiers are assigned to a unit composed of older soldiers, who are not exactly accommodating. The young soldiers find that there is no food available at the moment. They have not eaten since breakfast, but the men they have joined have not had food for two days. One of them, Kat Katczinsky, had gone to locate something to eat and he returns with a slaughtered hog he has stolen from a field kitchen. The young soldiers pay for their dinner with cigarettes. ........

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