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All Quiet on the Western Front

Ripper......: VH-PROD       █ Length.........: 131 mins.
Source......: DVD           █ Aspect Ratio...: 1.33:1
Type........: XviD          █ Resolution.....: 512x384
Disks.......: [ ]1CD [x]2CD
Rars........: 50x15MB ea.   █ Video Bitrate..: 1494 kb/s
Video Framerate: 23.976
VH-PROD Rls.: 12/02/03      █ Audio Bitrate..: 80 kb/s
DVD Release.: 09/02/03      █ Audio Language.: English
Theater Date: 08/24/30      █ Stream Type....: [x]Mp3 [ ]Ac3
Channels.......: [ ]Stereo
IMDB Rating.: 8.3/10        █                  [x]Mono

Genre.......: [ ] Action    █ Subtitles......: [x] English
[ ] Comedy   [x] Drama     █  [x] French      [x] Spanish
[ ] Romance  [ ] Family    █  [ ] Chinese     [ ] Japanese
[ ] Sci-Fi   [ ] Musical   █  [ ] Thai        [ ] Hindi
[ ] Horror   [ ] Fantasy   █  [ ] German      [ ] Dutch
[x] War      [ ] Crime     █  [ ] Portuguese  [ ] Other

IMDB Link: http://us.imdb.com/Title?tt0020629/

Teenage German soldiers pass from idealism to despair
in this deeply-felt movie version of Erich Maria
Remarque's anti-war novel. This Academy Award-winning
film (including for Best Picture) was banned in
countries going to war years after its release, and
unlike most "message" films that date themselves
almost immediately, director Lewis Milestone's film
has lost little of its original impact.

Louis Wolheim ....  Katczinsky
Lew Ayres ..........  Paul BΣumer (as Lewis Ayres)
John Wray .........  Himmelstoss, Postman/Sergeant
Arnold Lucy ........  Kantorek
Ben Alexander ....  Franz Kemmerich

Owen Davis Jr. ...  Peter
Walter Rogers ....  Behm (as Walter Browne Rogers)

In the closing scene, director Lewis Milestone's hand is
used for that of Ayres, when he reaches for a butterfly.

In part because of his experience in playing the part of
Paul Baumer, Lew Ayres became a conscientious objector
during the Second World War. His films were banned in
over 100 Chicago theaters.

Alternate versions:

In 1939, the film was re-released with two major changes:
the first was the addition of a voice-over narration
comparing the WWI German soldiers depicted quite favorably
to the Nazi army that had just begun to sweep across Europe.
The second change was the addition of a new scene at the
end, showing Nazis burning books -- including the one on
which the film is based.

Re-issue prints (particularly for 1940's and later TV
releases) were cut by some 35 minutes and the soundtrack
altered by the distributor, especially during the final
sequence where music was added contrary to director Lewis
Milestone's wishes. In 1980, before his death, Milestone
asked Universal to restore the film and remove the music
to the final scene. In 1998, about 30 minutes were
reinstated to resemble the original 1930 cut, and
Milestone's wishes were finally honored.

* Voice-overs are apparent in the samples provided, and
these should not be mistaken for audio synch issues.

vV's had Mono audio encapsulated in Stereo AC3 track