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![]() All Quiet on the Western Front was the first great war film of the American sound era and graphically shows that. Either you were defending or you were attacking the other guy's trenches against murderous automatic weapon fire and long distance artillery batteries. You lived, fought and died in those trenches. ![]() In fact had it not been for the fact that America joined the Allied side and the French and British held out until they did, I'm sure an honest armistice would have been declared long before November 11, 1918. This went on for a little over four years. ![]() On the western front the Allied and Central Powers armies were locked in a bitter stalemate that ran diagonally across France and Belgium from the English Channel to the Swiss border. Every generation since wars were recorded figures their war experience will be the same for their children. Very simply that their generation had a quick victory in 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War. I'm sure that viewers of All Quiet on the Western Front today probably are asking why that school master and so many of his generation were urging their youth on to such folly. The whole class enlists and that's not hyperbole because in Germany at the time it was the boys who got the education and the girls if they got it, got it separately from the boys. Lew Ayres is the student leader of a bunch of German school boys in 1914 who listen to the voice of their school master and enlist in the war that's just been declared. All Quiet on the Western Front won a deserved Best Picture Academy Award in the year it came out and brought great prestige to Universal Pictures as the first Oscar in that category won by that studio. Erich Maria Remarque's novel and the film made from it may possibly be the greatest anti-war statement ever created.
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