Saturday, July 30, 2011

TUNE IN TONIGHT

Cover of "All Quiet on the Western Front ...Cover via Amazon
TCM, 8 p.m. ET
TCM salutes Lew Ayres tonight, and starts off by showing two vintage movies of note. First up: This 1930 classic, one of the first great sound films after the transition from silent movies, shown in a newly restored version. Essentially, it’s the WWI equivalent of Band of Brothers, throwing us into the foxhole-level action – and, faithfully reproducing the message in the original novel by Erich Marie Remarque, presenting a strong anti-war sentiment just a dozen years after that war had ended.
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