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Professor Kantorek gives an impassioned speech about the glory of serving in the Army and "saving the Fatherland". On the
brink of becoming men, the boys in his class, led by Paul Baumer, are moved to join the army as the new 2nd Company. Their
romantic delusions are quickly broken during their brief but rigorous training under the abusive Corporal Himmelstoss, who
bluntly informs them, "You're going to be soldiers—and that's all." The new soldiers arrive by train at the combat zone, which
is mayhem, with soldiers everywhere, incoming shells, horse-drawn wagons racing about, and prolonged rain. One in the group
is killed before the new recruits can reach their post, to the alarm of one of the new soldiers (Behn). The new soldiers are
assigned to a unit composed of older soldiers, who are not exactly accommodating. The young soldiers find that there is no
food available at the moment. They have not eaten since breakfast, but the men they have joined have not had food for two
days. One of them, "Kat" Katczinsky, had gone to locate something to eat and he returns with a slaughtered hog he has stolen
from a field kitchen. The young soldiers "pay" for their dinner with soaps and cigarettes.
The new recruits' first trip to the trenches with the veterans, to re-string barbed wire, is a harrowing experience,
especially when Behn is blinded by shrapnel and hysterically runs into machine-gun fire. After spending several days in
a bunker under bombardment, they at last move into the trenches and successfully repulse an enemy attack; they then
counterattack and take an enemy trench with heavy casualties, but have to abandon it. They are sent back to the field
kitchens to get their rations; each man receives double helpings, simply because of the number of dead.
The men start out eating greedily, but then settle into a satiated torpor. They hear that they are to return to the
front the next day and begin a semi-serious discussion about the causes of the war and of wars in general. They
speculate about whether geographical entities offend each other and whether these disagreements involve them.
Tjaden speaks familiarly about himself and the Kaiser; Kat jokes that instead of having a war, they should
have the leaders of Europe be stripped to their underwear and "fight it out with clubs". One day, Corporal Himmelstoss
arrives to the front and is immediately spurned because of his bad reputation; he is forced to go over the top with
the 2nd Company and is promptly killed. In an attack on a cemetery, Paul stabs a French soldier, but finds himself
trapped in a hole with the dying man for an entire night. Throughout the night, he desperately tries to help him,
bringing him water, but fails miserably to stop him from dying. He cries bitterly and begs the dead body to speak
so he can be forgiven. Later, he returns to the German lines and is comforted by Kat.
Going back to the front line, Paul is severely wounded and taken to a Catholic hospital, along with his good friend
Albert Kropp. Kropp's leg is amputated, but he does not find out until some time afterwards. Around this time, Paul
is taken to the bandaging ward, from which, according to its reputation, nobody has ever returned alive; but he later
returns to the normal rooms triumphantly, only to find Kropp in depression. Paul is given a furlough and visits his
family at home. He is shocked by how uninformed everyone is about the actual situation of the war; everyone is convinced
that a final "push for Paris" is soon to occur. When Paul visits the schoolroom where he was originally recruited, he
finds Professor Kantorek prattling the same patriotic fervor to a class of even younger students. Professor Kantorek
asks of Paul to detail his experience, to which the latter reveals that war was not at all like he had envisioned and
mentions the deaths of his partners; this revelation upsets the professor, as well as the young students who promptly
call Paul a "coward". Disillusioned and angry, Paul returns to the front and comes upon another 2nd company that is
filled with new young recruits who are now disillusioned; he is then happily greeted by Tjaden. He goes to find Kat,
and they discuss the inability of the people to comprehend the futility of the war. Kat's shin is broken when a bomb
dropped by an aircraft falls nearby, so Paul carries him back to a field hospital - only to find that Kat has been
killed by a second explosion. Crushed by the loss of his mentor, Paul leaves.
In the final scene, Paul is back on the front lines. He sees a butterfly just beyond his trench. Paul smiles and reaches
out towards the butterfly, but becoming too exposed, he is shot and killed by an enemy sniper. The final shot shows the
2nd Company arriving at the front for the first time, fading out to the image of a cemetery.
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Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, George "Slim" Summerville, John Wray, Raymond Griffith
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Director: Lewis Milestone
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Released - April 21, 1930
Length - 138 minutes
Music Composer: David Broekman
Movie Distributed by Universal Pictures
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