Library Cinema: All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Library Cinema takes place in the Dunaway Community Room.

Doors open at 7PM, the film starts at 7:30PM. Tickets are $10.00, cash only

Director Lewis Milestone's brilliant anti-war polemic, headlined by an unforgettable performance from Lew Ayres, lays bare the tragic foolishness at the heart of war. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their jingoistic teacher. The story is told entirely through the experiences of the young German recruits and highlights the tragedy of war through the eyes of the individual.

"How it was possible to attain such remarkable accuracy in the battle episodes is a story in itself. But the delicate and intimate touches in the production are exceptionally fine, and though the story is somber there is the relieving humor here and there." - L.A. Times. 

Academy Award Winner Best Picture 1930. (USA) Ends at 9:30pm.

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