On a Scale of 1 to 10: 3
This Best Picture winner is a surprisingly violent, somewhat graphic, anti-war film based on the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. It has a simple message: War is not glorious but nightmarish. This black-and-white film follows a group of German youth who are encouraged to enlist in World War I by hometown propaganda that fills them with heroic, idealistic misconceptions about war. “All Quiet on the Western Front” depicts their horrible enlightenment. Louis Wolheim and Lew Ayres star in the film. (And though the movie follows German soldiers, there are no subtitles. It is filmed in English.)
Director: Lewis Milestone. Starring Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray. Genre: War. Runtime: 133 min. B&W. (No MPAA rating but equivalent to PG)
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