
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
Cast

Louis Wolheim
Stanislaus 'Kat' Katczinsky

Lew Ayres
Paul Bäumer

John Wray
Himmelstoss

Arnold Lucy
Kantorek

Ben Alexander
Franz Kemmerich

Scott Kolk
Leer

Owen Davis Jr.
Peter

Walter Rogers
Behn

William Bakewell
Albert Kropp

Russell Gleason
Mueller

Richard Alexander
Westhus

Harold Goodwin
Detering

Slim Summerville
Tjaden

G. Pat Collins
Bertinck

Beryl Mercer
Paul's Mother

Edmund Breese
Herr Meyer

Ernie Adams
2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)

Marion Clayton Anderson
Anna Bäumer (uncredited)
Poupée Andriot
French Girl (uncredited)

Vince Barnett
Assistant Cook (uncredited)

Daisy Belmore
Frau Kemmerick (uncredited)

Glen Boles
Young Soldier (uncredited)

Heinie Conklin
Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)

Yola d'Avril
Suzanne (uncredited)
Renée Damonde
French Girl (uncredited)

Arthur Gardner
Student (uncredited)

Raymond Griffith
Gérard Duval (uncredited)

Ellen Hall
Young Girl (uncredited)

William Irving
Ginger - the Cook (uncredited)
Frederick Kohner
Minor Role (uncredited)
Frank Leichtfried
Minor Role (uncredited)

Tom London
1st Medic Orderly (uncredited)

Bertha Mann
Sister Libertine (uncredited)

Joan Marsh
Poster Girl (uncredited)

Edwin Maxwell
Herr Bäumer (uncredited)
Jack McHugh
Schoolboy (uncredited)

Maurice Murphy
Soldier (uncredited)

Robert Parrish
Schoolboy (uncredited)

Bodil Rosing
Mother of Hospital Patient (uncredited)

Wolfgang Staudte
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Sutherland
Minor Role (uncredited)
David Tyrell
Soldier (uncredited)

Dorothy Vernon
Charwoman (uncredited)

Fred Zinnemann
German Soldier / French Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Crew

Lewis Milestone
Director
Del Andrews
Adaptation

Maxwell Anderson
Adaptation

George Abbott
Screenplay

Erich Maria Remarque
Novel
Maurice Pivar
Supervising Film Editor
Edgar Adams
Editor
Milton Carruth
Editor
Arthur Edeson
Director of Photography
Karl Freund
Director of Photography

Nate Watt
Assistant Director

Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer

Carl Laemmle
Producer, Presenter
David Broekman
Music Supervisor, Music
C. Gardner Sullivan
Story Supervisor
C. Roy Hunter
Recording Supervision
Charles D. Hall
Art Direction
William R. Schmidt
Art Direction
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