Damian Sutton wrote:
> on 17/9/03 6:43 PM, Richard Armstrong at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> >Why have we lost interest in WW1? I mean why don't people
> > make films about it anymore? I think the only films I have ever seen about
> > the Americans in WW1 are the Vidor, Sergeant York and Shoulder Arms. I'd like
> > to
> > see more films about what the French did too.
> > Richard
> >
>
> The Fighting 69th?
> All Quiet on the Western Front?
> La Grande illusion?
>
Griffith's Heart of the World has some startlingly eerie scenes filmed
right at the active front.
The first half of Gance's J'Accuse takes place during a battle on the
very last day of the war (and then deals with the aftermath).
Pabst's Westfront 1918 is superb.
In addition, there were numerous films about the immediate
aftereffects of the war on veterans, as in Dieterle's The Last Flight
and Wellman's Heroes For Sale.
--Robert Keser
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