The Road Back
film by Whale [1937]
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discussed in biography
- In James Whale: Films of the later 1930s
The Road Back (1937) was a sequel to Lewis Milestone’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with the surviving German soldiers finding their homecoming rather rockier going than expected; Universal trivialized Erich Maria Remarque’s original story by removing much of its anti-Nazi focus.
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