All Quiet on the Western Front
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- Release Date
- November 14, 1979
- Director
- Delbert Mann
- Cast
- Richard Thomas , Ernest Borgnine , Donald Pleasence , Ian Holm , Patricia Neal , Paul Mark Elliott
- Runtime
- 150
- Main Genre
- War
- Writers
- Paul Monash , Erich Maria Remarque
- Tagline
- They left for war as Boys, never to return as men.
Summary
All Quiet on the Western Front is a television movie produced by ITC Entertainment, released on November 14, 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky. It is based on the book of the same title by Erich Maria Remarque.The 1979 film was directed by Delbert Mann; though the acting of some of the performers was praised, the general opinion of most film enthusiasts is it failed to equal the 1930 film directed by Lewis Milestone. Nevertheless, the film has its share of tension and death, and in the spirit of the novel, manages to convey a sense of desolation, hardship, and waste. Late in the film, the turmoil and wretchedness of the main character, Paul Baumer, is manifest in his extreme disassociation while home on furlough.Most of the movie was filmed in Czechoslovakia in what was one of the first US/UK produced films to be shot in a Communist Bloc country.
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