eShop USA > DVD > All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Universal Cinema Classics)
List Price: $14.98Our Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 (27%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Unknown
EAN: 0025193236821
Format: Black & White, Dolby, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Universal Studios
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Latin (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
MPN: 025193236821
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 06, 2007
Running Time: 132 minutes
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: August 24, 1930
Related Items: Featured Listmania!
Editorial Review:
No Description Available.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 6-FEB-2007
Media Type: DVD
If a classic movie can be measured by the number of indelible images it burns into the collective imagination, then All Quiet on the Western Front's status is undisputed. Since its release in 1930 (and Oscar win for best picture), this film's saga of German boys avidly signing up for World War I battle--and then learning the truth of war--has been acclaimed for its intensity, artistry, and grown-up approach. Director Lewis Milestone's technical expertise is already stunning in the great opening sequence, as a professor exhorts his students to volunteer for the glory of the Fatherland while troops march past the windows. Erich Maria Remarque's novel is faithfully followed, but Milestone's superbly composed frames make it physical: the first battle scene, with the camera prowling the trenches as they fill with death and chaos, was surely the Saving Private Ryan of its day. The cast is strong, with little-known Lew Ayres finding stardom in the lead (Ayres became a pacifist and conscientious objector during World War II; although he served in battle as a medic, the stance harmed his career). This DVD has no extras beyond a vintage re-release trailer and Robert Osborne's useful introduction, but the main draw is the excellent picture and sound quality of the print--the movie looks better than it has in years. Those indelible images are now clear enough to cut glass: Ayres' lonely look back at the disappearing troop truck; the blinded soldier who runs into enemy fire at night; the fine pair of boots wasted on a boy with an amputated leg; and the final, devastating seconds, arguably the defining cinematic image of war in the 20th century. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Historical Icon
This is a 1930 film production, faithfully based on Eric Marie Remarque's WWI novel by the same title. Considering the infancy of talkie film making when this was created, it is an absolutely remarkable piece. Many of the battle scene techniques have been recycled to this day.
I read the novel 3 or 4 years ago, and had forgotten that it was told from the German viewpoint (such is the universality of the war experience). The story is critical of war - though I personally believe that ... Read More
Rating: - All Quiet Screams loudly the devestation of War
All Quiet on the Western Front is a masterpiece of cinema. The movie released in 1930 is I think is the greatest movie made in a generation of movies that were making the transition from silent to talkies.
Several things make this a movie not to be missed.
1. The movie deals with WWI, and not to many movies portray this epic war, and those that do all fall behind this one.
2. The movie, like the book, show the war from a German point-of-view, which doesn't happen ... Read More
Rating: - All Quiet On the Western Front: A Must See For Those Who Hate War-time Propaganda
The 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front staring Lew Ayres as Paul Baumer gives an accurate picture of the tragic loss of World War I. Eric Maria Remarque's classic anti-war novel and the motion-picture that followed relates the story of young men who were manipulated by the rhetoric of their teacher into enlisting in the German army. They are told that to die for the "fatherland" was the most beautiful and precious way to die. They are also told to set aside their own personal ambitions and help Germany ... Read More
Rating: - Still Crazy After All These Years
It's hard to imagine how with movies like these made 70 years ago people are still duped by their leaders and thrown into needless wars. Considering the age of the movie its amazing how entertaining and pertinent it still is, special effects are very good, but don't expect Saving Private Ryan.
Rating: - EXCELLENT PRODUCT & TRANSACTION!!!!
The DVD got here faster than i expected and the conditions are as described on the web.
GREAT SELLLER!!!! RECOMMENDED!!!!!!
THANKS
Related Categories:
| |
 |
![Intervideo DVD Copy 5 Platinum [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/311evHXG1rL._SL75_.jpg
)
