All Quiet on the Western Front
Capsule by Jonathan Rosenbaum
From the Chicago Reader

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.

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