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Lewis Milestone's powerful 1930 adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's antiwar novel, starring Lew Ayres and Louis Wolheim, deserves its reputation as a classic. The sound version originally ran 140 minutes, though ultimately (and unfortunately) the studio eliminated about 35 of them. Most of the missing footage was subsequently restored in a combined effort by various archives, and at 132 minutes the film can now be seen for the remarkable work that it is. Milestone's other 30s work (e.g., Hallelujah, I'm a Bum) is sorely in need of reappraisal.

Sorry there are no showtimes for All Quiet on the Western Front on Sunday, November 22.

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