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Old December 28th, 2008, 06:12 PM
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Default Trying to remeber the name of a ww1 movie..

I am trying to remeber a movie I saw over 15 years ago.. It was during ww1 from the German side. The ending of the movie had a German soldier which the movie followed. He was in a trench and a bird landed in a tree near by he got out his sketch pad and began to draw the bird his head started to stick out the trench a little to get a better view of the bird and he was shot in the head. And the movie ended does anyone remeber what movie this was?
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Jaeger is correct. There are several movie versions of the book by the same name.
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Auther: Erich Maria Remarque. He was a pacifist and his books were burnt by the Nazis.
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The first time I saw this movie was the 1979 version with Richard Thomas and Edward Borgnine. I still like that version.

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Default Re: Trying to remeber the name of a ww1 movie..

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The first time I saw this movie was the 1979 version with Richard Thomas and Edward Borgnine. I still like that version.

I think thats the version I saw, thanks guys!
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I've got both versions don't remember gertting killed reaching for a bird. However, the original and guy the who Thomas played (Lew Ayers)Ayers did reach for a bird and was killed by a French sniper. This took place after Kaz died: Kaz was played by Louis Wohlheim-who was played by Borgnine in the remake.

It's been years since i last saw the Thomas version but I THINK the Thomas version had him reaching for a Butterfly.
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Yes, the Thomas character hears the bird and pulls out a sketch pad to draw it, he then moves to get a better view and that is when he gets shot/killed.
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Hi Ike, thanks for the confirm/ I guess this one will be on my soon to rewatch list ;-)
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"Paul, in the trench, sees a butterfly, and he reaches out to grab it. However, a French sniper shoots Paul, killing him on a day that was "All Quiet on the Western Front." "
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
All Quiet on the Western Front is considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, and was named #54 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies. However, it fell out of the top 100 in the AFI's 2007 revision. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. All Quiet on the Western Front was acknowledged as the seventh best film in the epic genre.[1][2] In 1990, this film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

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"Paul, in the trench, sees a butterfly, and he reaches out to grab it. However, a French sniper shoots Paul, killing him on a day that was "All Quiet on the Western Front." "
1930 version

All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film based on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
All Quiet on the Western Front is considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, and was named #54 on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies. However, it fell out of the top 100 in the AFI's 2007 revision. In June 2008, AFI revealed its 10 Top 10—the best ten films in ten "classic" American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community. All Quiet on the Western Front was acknowledged as the seventh best film in the epic genre.[1][2] In 1990, this film was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Director.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Qui...ont_(1930_film)

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Which version do you guys like best? for me it's the 1930 version and a name I can think of that's missing from the criedits for the original version-is Slim Summerville-who was the tall dorky-like soldier and who also was "shafted" out of getting his French Girl-because the others got him drunk. I think that was also one of his last movies completed before sadly, he passed away.
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I liked the 1979 version.
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I liked the version that had the bird which is probably the 1979 version.
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The same for me, the 1979 version. Both were excellent films, but the lastest one appeals to me, and probably younger audiences more. By younger audiences, I mean those born and came of age after the common use of color TV that is. That and known charactors.
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