Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s eponymous novel, a group of German infantrymen experience the Armistice and return home, where they find the growing shadow of authoritarian rule. Director James Whale, who experienced World War I first hand in the trenches of the British Army, saw his uncompromising pacifist film watered down after the Nazi Consulate in Los Angeles complained. This restoration by Universal Studios includes for the first time many scenes that the company had eliminated in the 1939 release version.
35mm, b/w, 97 min. DIR: James Whale. SCR: Charles Kenyon, R.C. Sheriff. CAST: John King, Richard Cromwell, Slim Summerville.
