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Category: Drama, WarNotable as: Drama, Award-Winning WorkSub-Category: War film, Action Film, DramaMain subject: World War IRuntime: 101 - 152 minutesLanguage: English, French, Latin, GermanCountry: United StatesDirector: Lewis Milestone, Nate WattScreenwriter: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Erich Maria Remarque, Lewis Milestone, C. Gardner SullivanBased on: All Quiet on the Western FrontCinematography: Arthur Edeson, Karl Freund, Tony GaudioStars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Beryl Mercer, Owen Davis, Jr., Scott Kolk, John Wray, Russell Gleason, G. Pat Collins, Walter Rogers, Richard Alexander Producer: Carl Laemmle, Jr., Carl LaemmleStudio: Universal StudiosAwards won: Academy Award for Best Director (Lewis Milestone)
Academy Award for Best Picture
National Film RegistryAward nominations: Academy Award for Best Cinematography (Arthur Edeson)
Academy Award for Best Writing (George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson)Award details: (details at IMDb)
Description

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American epic war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander. All Quiet on the Western Front is considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, and was named #54 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies. However, it fell out of the top 100 in the AFI's 2007 revision. In June 2008, after polling over 1,500 workers in the creative community, AFI announced its 10 Top 10—the ten best films in each of ten "classic" American film genres; All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best film in the epic genre. In 1990, the film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director. Its sequel is The Road Back, which shows members of the 2nd Company returning home after the war.


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