Eagan, Daniel. "All Quiet on the Western Front". America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry (2010): 168-169 ISBN 0826429777 [1]. And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death." – Nominated. Chambers, John Whiteclay. "All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): the antiwar film and the image of the First World War". Historical journal of film, radio and television 14.4 (1994): 377-411. Higham, Charles. Select List of Banned Films in "Film censorship: the untold story". The Bulletin, November 20, 1965, p.18. The Nazi campaign was successful and German authorities outlawed the film on December 11, 1930. A heavily cut version was briefly allowed in 1931, before the Nazis came to power in 1933 and the film was outlawed again. The film was finally re-released in Germany on April 25, 1952, in the Capitol Theatre in West Berlin.

They hear that they are to return to the front the next day and begin a semi-serious discussion about the causes of the war and of wars in general. Noted comedienne ZaSu Pitts was originally cast as Paul's mother and completed the film but preview audiences, used to seeing her in comic roles, laughed when she appeared onscreen so Milestone re-shot her scenes with Beryl Mercer before the film was released. The preview audience remains the only one who saw Pitts in the role, although she does appear for about 30 seconds in the film's original preview trailer. the leap up from 4K Netflix DV to 4K disc DV isn't seismic, but it is noticeable in all the right placesSchleh, Eugene P. "All Quiet on the Western Front: A History Teacher's Reappraisal". Film & History 8.4 (1978): 66-69. The League of Nations could make no better investment than to buy up the master-print, reproduce it in every language, to be shown in all the nations until the word "war" is taken out of the dictionaries. Nourmand, Tony (2013). 100 Movie Posters: The Essential Collection. London: Reel Art Press. pp.276–277. ISBN 978-0-9572610-8-2.

For those who don't have Netflix, the decision is relatively simple. Excellent video and audio alone will seduce many, and the promise of a film that has had just so damn many awards should likely leave the majority more than satisfied - if exhausted. However those with Netflix face a harder quandary, as this isn't just a standard release, it's some deluxe limited release, carrying a commensurate price point. Sure, it's got DV and DA but so did the 'free' Netflix version, and even if they're noticeably better, you'd have to not only really love the film (which, clearly, many do) but also be prepared to watch it more than once (which, even those who really appreciate it may not be up for). So choose wisely, lest this be a very pretty set left languishing on your shelf, unopened.Without diluting or denying any ... criticisms, it should be said that from World War I to Korea, Milestone could put the viewer into the middle of a battlefield, and make the hellish confusion of it seem all too real to the viewer. Steven Spielberg noted as much when he credited Milestone's work as partial inspiration for Saving Private Ryan ... Lewis Milestone made significant contributions to [the genre of] the war film. [14] In the film, Paul is shot while reaching for a butterfly. This scene is different from the book, and was inspired by an earlier scene showing a butterfly collection in Paul's home. The scene was shot during the editing phase, so the actors were no longer available and Milestone had to use his own hand as Paul's. American Film Institute (June 17, 2008). "AFI Crowns Top 10 Films in 11 Classic Genres". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on June 19, 2008 . Retrieved June 18, 2008. Within ten minutes, the cinema resembles a madhouse. The police are powerless. The embittered crowd takes out its anger on the Jews. The first breakthrough in the West. 'Jews out!' 'Hitler is standing at the gates!' The police sympathize with us. The Jews are small and ugly. The box office outside is under siege. Windowpanes are broken. Thousands of people enjoy the spectacle. The screening is abandoned, as is the next one. We have won. The newspapers are full of our protest. But not even the Berliner Tageblatt dares to call us names. The nation is on our side. In short: victory!

All Quiet on the Western Front comes to UK 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray courtesy of Altitude. The Ultra HD Blu-ray delivers a native 4K HDR presentation with Dolby Vision.In a retrospective review, American film critic Pauline Kael commented, "The year 1930 was, of course, a good year for pacifism, which always flourishes between wars; Milestone didn't make pacifist films during the Second World War—nor did anybody else working in Hollywood. And wasn't it perhaps easier to make All Quiet just because its heroes were German? War always seems like a tragic waste when told from the point of view of the losers." [19] All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, and Ben Alexander. Schleh, Eugene P. "Books About Film and War". Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 8.1 (1978): 11-14. A young German soldier's terrifying experiences and distress on the western front during World War I. (less) The latest in the now dangerously monotone 'war is bad' rhetoric, All Quiet on the Western Front struggles to say anything new but certainly provides a suitably - expectedly - punishing ride.