The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on August 12, 2023

Last year I chose the German-made adaptation of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT as the best film of 2022. After I wrote a blog post on it a few people mentioned the 1979 TV film of the novel, which I had never seen. Recently I bought an 8-movie DVD...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on February 4, 2023

Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front starts with a moment of juxtaposition. We are shown the beautiful winter forest in France, and then a family of foxes sleeping, nestled in their foxhole. A foxhole as nature intended. Then we are shown a gruesome, overhead shot of a nearby...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on November 7, 2022

Erich Maria Remarque's acclaimed novel about World War One, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning, legendary film by Universal Studios in 1930. This year brings a new movie version of the book, made in Europe and featuring a mainly German cast & crew. I...   read more

The Wonderful World of Cinema Posted by Virginie Pronovost on June 28, 2017

From March 2015 to April 2017, I was writing the monthly Teen Scene column for the website ClassicFlix. My objective was to promote classic films among teenagers and young adults. Due to the establishing of a new version of the website, it’s now more difficult to access to the old...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on August 15, 2015

Directed by Lewis Millstone and starring an ensemble cast headed by Lew Ayres, this archetypal anti-war film based on the novel of the same name, begins with a group of school boys during the dawn of WWI. This group of patriotic German youth is hungry for adventure and the glories...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on August 15, 2015

Directed by Lewis Millstone and starring an ensemble cast headed by Lew Ayres, this archetypal anti-war film based on the novel of the same name, begins with a group of school boys during the dawn of WWI. This group of patriotic German youth is hungry for adventure and the glories...   read more

Backlots Posted by Lara on May 29, 2015

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is taking place the week of Memorial Day this year, and a fitting film opened the festival this evening. A packed crowd filled the Castro Theatre at the corner of Market and Castro to see All Quiet on the Western Front, a beautiful adaptation of...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on April 3, 2015

For the first act or so of All Quiet on the Western Front, director Milestone very gently puts the viewer amid the naïveté of the film’s protagonists, a group of students who drop out to enlist (in the first World War). He opens with this gorgeously complicated shot–brilliantly edited b   read more

MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on December 27, 2012

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Telling a World War story from the German perspective was not a common occurrence in classic film, but in 1930 Hollywood did just that with All Quiet on the Western Front. Based on the classic novel by German World War I veteran Erich...   read more

The Best Picture Project Posted by Alyson on March 18, 2011

It was in a high school history class that I first encountered All Quiet on the Western Front.  Even as my classmates groaned over the black and white, I think Mr. Acton realized this was one of those films that everyone needs to see.  Between then and now, the film...   read more

Movie Classics Posted by Judy on September 6, 2008

Lew Ayres I’d heard of All Quiet on the Western Front as one of the greatest war movies, and it completely lived up to my expectations. I haven’t read Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, so can’t make any comparisons. But, apart from being an adaptation, this is an astonishing film   read more