CIVIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1052, 16 August 1930, Page 15

CIVIC

“ALL QUIET” Of all the war books that have ever been written, and of all the war pictures ever made, “All Quiet” has aroused the most comment, all sections of the community joining in voting this sincere and realistic story of a German youth and his compan,sons-in-arms among the most powerful indictments of war. If anything, the picture of “All Quiet” tells its story and its message with greater effect than did the book, for no matter how strong tho prose, language can never hope to compete with the moving and speaking spectacle of war. “AJI Quiet,” as a picture, is Remarque in film form, and no higher praise could be vouchsafed the picture. If men can fight wars, and women can join the medical corps, then there is no reason why they should find “All Quiet on the Western Front,” whether as a book or a picture, too true and realistic for their sensitive, peacetime souls. It is a picture that reaches the souls and minds of men and women as no other has yet done; this story of a dreadful war fought by boys of IS and It is a bitter, tragic but hopeful story, a prayer for peace, a requiescat to those who fell all along the Western Front. Owing to the length of “All Quiet,” there is a very short supporting programme, only a Paramount Sound News and a musical selection by the Civic Concert Orchestra under Mr. Howard Moody being given.