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- Title
All Quiet.
- Abstract
This article discusses the motion picture "All Quiet on the Western Front." The film marked the high water mark of pro-German sentiment. It was soon followed by other films which were not so completely favorable in their presentation. The German industrialist in Grand Hotel, played by Wallace Beery, displays despicable traits, including sadistic cruelty and indifference to others, greed, deceit on a grand scale--traits which somehow seem to be stereotyped qualities. Overall, the interwar years had helped to correct some of the devastating conceptions of the Germans that had emerged so strongly and so quickly during the World War. But two other features need to be noted. The first is the relative disinterest in the Germans. Nothing like the kind of saturation of film propaganda which had occurred in three years of war occurred between 1919 and 1938. Secondly, in most films that deal with the Germans, strains of negative qualities and typecasting persisted, and were available as a foundation when war once again demanded the full effort of denunciation.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ALL Quiet on the Western Front (Film : 1930); GERMANS in motion pictures; BEERY, Wallace; ANTI-German boycotts; BOYCOTTS
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1973, Vol 3, Issue 2, p9
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Entertainment Review