a b "Review: 'All Quiet on the Western Front' ". Variety. May 7, 1930 . Retrieved February 3, 2017. Tibbetts, John C., and James M. Welsh, eds. The Encyclopedia of Novels Into Film (2nd ed. 2005): 14-15.

Higham, Charles. Select List of Banned Films in "Film censorship: the untold story". The Bulletin, November 20, 1965, p.18. Noted comedienne ZaSu Pitts was originally cast as Paul's mother and completed the film but preview audiences, used to seeing her in comic roles, laughed when she appeared onscreen so Milestone re-shot her scenes with Beryl Mercer before the film was released. The preview audience remains the only one who saw Pitts in the role, although she does appear for about 30 seconds in the film's original preview trailer. Kael, Pauline (1991). 5001 Nights at the Movies. New York, N.Y.: Picador. p.18. ISBN 978-0-8050-1367-2 . Retrieved July 12, 2021.Chambers, John Whiteclay. "All Quiet on the Western Front (1930): the antiwar film and the image of the First World War". Historical journal of film, radio and television 14.4 (1994): 377-411. Schleh, Eugene P. "Books About Film and War". Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 8.1 (1978): 11-14. In the film, Paul is shot while reaching for a butterfly. This scene is different from the book, and was inspired by an earlier scene showing a butterfly collection in Paul's home. The scene was shot during the editing phase, so the actors were no longer available and Milestone had to use his own hand as Paul's. All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy, and Ben Alexander.

Shot with gritty brutality, caked in dirt and dust and sweat and blood, and gifted a succession of truly punishing extended setpieces that, one after the other, hammer home the true horrors of war, All Quiet on the Western Front is a hell of an endurance piece. If you thought it was hard enough watching best friends see each other blown to pieces by artillery fire, or be fooled by a brief reprieve before the tanks arrive, how about some vicious you-or-me squirming-around-with-knives hand-to-hand combat? It's a meticulously crafted examination of everything horrible that could possibly happen to a young and naive kid who has just walked onto a battlefield. It's won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Score (that last one is an easy fit - the aggressive, intrusive and arguably atypical score gifting the film its one glimmer of something different from its peers). On paper, you can see why it's won so many damn awards, and it is definitely a solid, impressively put-together feature. Arthur Gardner as classroom student (uncredited) (at the time of his death in December 2014, he was the last surviving member of the cast or crew) Box Office Information for All Quiet on the Western Front, Box Office Mojo; retrieved April 13, 2012. Within ten minutes, the cinema resembles a madhouse. The police are powerless. The embittered crowd takes out its anger on the Jews. The first breakthrough in the West. 'Jews out!' 'Hitler is standing at the gates!' The police sympathize with us. The Jews are small and ugly. The box office outside is under siege. Windowpanes are broken. Thousands of people enjoy the spectacle. The screening is abandoned, as is the next one. We have won. The newspapers are full of our protest. But not even the Berliner Tageblatt dares to call us names. The nation is on our side. In short: victory! Eagan, Daniel. "All Quiet on the Western Front". America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry (2010): 168-169 ISBN 0826429777 [1].Nourmand, Tony (2013). 100 Movie Posters: The Essential Collection. London: Reel Art Press. pp.276–277. ISBN 978-0-9572610-8-2. And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death." – Nominated.