All Quiet On The Western Front DVD

Skip to page content
Skip to primary navigation
Skip to secondary navigation

Browse DVDs

DVD Charts

DVD Genres

Sendit.com Shops

All Quiet On The Western Front

RRP: £15.99 You Save: £11.10

DVD £4.89 Free Delivery

ipoints Value Total: 49

Claim these ipoints »

Release Date: 21 February 2005

Availability: Usually dispatched within 4 days. More...

More Details

Certificate:	PG

Cast List:	Lew Ayres, William Bakewell, John Wray, Slim Summerville, Louis Wolheim

Director:	Lewis Milestone, Arthur Edeson

Special Features:	None Listed.

Region:	Region 2

Aspect Ratio:	Aspect Ratio 1.33:1

Number of Disks:	1

Main Language:	English

Subtitle Languages:	English for the deaf and hard of hearing

Description

Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately, Lewis Milestone's low-key unpolished and 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 mobilizing 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 and we fight. We try not to be killed - that's all". All Quiet 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 and 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; and the final shot of the soldier's hand reaching for a fatal butterfly.