Lew Ayres And Ben Alexander All Quiet On The Western Front 1930 Color Added 2016

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Lew Ayres And Ben Alexander All Quiet On The Western Front 1930 Color Added 2016

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David Lee Guss

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Photograph - Photography

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"The film received tremendous praise in the United States, but controversy would attend the film's subject matter elsewhere, including Europe. Due to its anti-war and perceived anti-German messages, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party banned the film from Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. During its brief run in German cinemas in the early 1930s, Nazi brownshirts under the command of Joseph Goebbels disrupted the viewings by setting off stink bombs, throwing sneezing powder in the air and releasing white mice in the theaters, eventually escalating to attacking audience members perceived to be Jewish and forcing projectors to shut down.

Subsequent to these Nazi riots, according to Harvard scholar Ben Urwand in his study, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler (October 2013), producer Carl Laemmle, Jr. agreed to significant cuts in the movie to make it more palatable for the large film audience in Germany.

Between the period of 1930 to 1941, this was one of many films to be banned in Australia by the Chief Censor Creswell O'Reilly. The film was also banned in Italy and Austria in 1931, with the prohibition officially raised only in the 1980s, and in France up to 1963. The film was finally re-released in Germany on April 25, 1952, in the Capitol Theatre in West Berlin."

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