All Quiet on the Western Front with Richard Thomas: DVD Cover

    All Quiet on the Western Front Director: Delbert Mann Cast: Richard Thomas

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    • DVD Release Date: 04/23/2002
    • Original Release: 1979
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 8,711

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    Full-screen version; Digitally mastered; 2.0 Dolby stereo Surround; Scene index; Interactive menus

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Opening Credits [12:25]
    2. A Good Day [1:25]
    3. Visiting Kemmerich [2:44]
    4. Look After Franz [8:54]
    5. Training Days [6:52]
    6. Ready to Do Battle [3:51]
    7. Baptism [7:26]
    8. Just a Baby [3:28]
    9. An Old "Friend" [8:17]
    10. Softening Up [2:55]
    11. The Routine [2:20]
    12. Remorse [10:42]
    13. Expectations [4:00]
    14. The French Girls [8:11]
    15. Take Care [4:34]
    16. What's the Dead Room? [5:05]
    17. Cheering Albert Up [2:50]
    18. At Home [7:36]
    19. Paying Visits [5:36]
    20. Back to the Front [7:23]
    21. End Credits/All Quiet [11:43]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front (1979). Richard Thomas stars as Paul Baumer, a teen who, at the urging of zealously patriotic teacher Kantorek (Donald Pleasence) enthusiastically enlists to fight for Germany in WWI, accompanied by several school chums. After training at the hands of the sadistic Corporal Himmelstoss (Ian Holm), Paul and his friends head for the front. There, they discover that war is a bloody, deadly business, although they are heartened by the presence of their commander, wily veteran Stanislaus Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine). When a French soldier jumps into the bomb crater where Paul has taken refuge one night, he is forced to stab the enemy, then must watch the man die in agony. This incident and the violent deaths of his friends convince Paul that war is a senseless exercise. One of the most respected anti-war novels ever written, the book resulted in the German citizenship of author Erich Maria Remarque being revoked by the Nazi Party. Though a 1930 film adaptation by Lewis Milestone was widely beloved by fans of cinema and the source material, Mann's TV movie was well received, earning a Golden Globe and Emmys for Borgnine and Patricia Neal, who played Paul's mother. Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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    All Quiet on the Western Frontby Anonymous

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    June 20, 2007: This movie accurately portrayed war. All the deppressing details. In one scene, the protagonist is hiding in a bomb crater, and stabs a French soldier who falls in. He stays with the still moaning body all night, and finally kills him. In another scene, a patient in a convent turned military hospital, a person tries to kill himself, and is taken to the "dying room", where severly wounded soldiers are left to die. The movie's plot was a bit slow in getting started. This is a VERY deppressing movie.

    All Quiet on the Western Frontby Anonymous

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    March 15, 2004: This is a story of the Great War and the promising generation destroyed by it. The purpose of this movie is to show that war is a horrible, nasty buisness, never to be glorified. The best hope we can have is to remember the mistakes of the past, educate and inform the masses, so we at least have a chance of not repeating history.


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