All Quiet on the Western Front Movie Review 1979

A big-budget TV remake of the 1930 masterpiece starring John Boy. Sensitive German youth Thomas plunges excitedly into WWI and discovers its terror and degradation. Nowhere near the original's quality.

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 150 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

World War I, Anti-War War Movies, Military: Foreign

Screenplay

Paul Monash

Cast

Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Patricia Neal

Cinematography

John Coquillon

Director

Delbert Mann

Music

Allyn Ferguson

Producer

Norman Rosemont Productions, Marble Arch Productions, Universal Pictures