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   gggg gggg to neo...@webtv.net   
   Re: All Quiet On The Western Front ( TVM   
   13 Nov 22 00:27:28   
   
   From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 12:52:24 PM UTC-8, neo...@webtv.net wrote:   
   > Fairly long film is easier to take than the 1930 version. From that one the   
   souped up teacher was memorable but I prefer the more layed back approach to   
   battle presented in this version..less melodramatic. Richard Thomas is   
   acceptable in the lead role,    
   Ernest Borgnine good as the old hand of the platoon. Never felt the   
   participants to be German but the spirit of the situation does come through.    
   > Photographed in a manner not to engender suspense or horror or squalor I   
   still was able to sense the POV of the novel in that wars are something   
   inflicted on the common man.    
   > While never " graphic " there's enough of a sense of death and dying to get   
   its points across. 7-/10 4 more years nots   
      
   https://www.thearticle.com/best-war-film-for-years-all-quiet-on-   
   he-western-front   
      
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