directed by: Lewis Milestone
written by: George Abbott, Maxwell Anderson + Erich Maria Remarque (book)
starring: Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, Ben Alexander
seen on 13th March, 2019
Okay, I'm going to say it: All this film's missing to basically be Full Metal Jacket (my personal war favourite) is Surfin' Bird and Vincent D'Onofrio. (And fifty seven years of film-making advancement, but I consider that a minor detail.)
The trench war portrayed here is so real and palpable it makes my skin crawl. Sometimes I have a problem with the way screenwriters adapt a literary story arc into a film one, but this film is not the case. This uncertain constant move forward with the possibility of it being a circle with a lot of dead ends and the characters being in focus and bearing the message on their shoulders works perfectly and does the silver screen super justice. "The boots" is one great example for all, but I am a hundred percent fan nonetheless.
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