All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 American film by Lewis Milestone · Released 1930
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Slim Summerville, and William Bakewell. The film opened to wide acclaim in the United States. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1997.
Cast ages at release (1930)
- Louis Wolheim, as Corporal Stanislaus "Kat" Katczinsky: 49–50
- Lew Ayres, as Paul Bäumer: 21–22
- John Wray, as Himmelstoss: 42–43
- Arnold Lucy, as Professor Kantorek: 64–65
- Ben Alexander, as Franz Kemmerick: 18–19
- Russell Gleason, as Mueller: 22–23
- Slim Summerville, as Tjaden: 37–38
- G. Pat Collins, as Lieutenant Bertinck: 34–35
- Beryl Mercer, as Frau Bäumer: 47–48
- Edwin Maxwell, as Herr Bäumer: 43–44
- Harold Goodwin, as Detering: 27–28
- ZaSu Pitts: 35–36
- Fred Zinnemann: 22–23
- Edmund Breese, as Herr Meyer: 58–59
- Richard Alexander, as Haie Westhus: 27–28
- William Bakewell, as Albert Kropp: 21–22
- Yola d'Avril, as Suzanne: 23–24
- William Irving, as Ginger: 36–37
- Heinie Conklin, as Joseph Hammacher: 43–44
- Scott Kolk, as Leer: 24–25
- Owen Davis, Jr., as Peter: 22–23
- Bertha Mann, as Sister Libertine: 36–37
- Raymond Griffith, as Gérald: 34–35