The Road Back
6.2
“FAREWELL WESTERN FRONT - HAIL YOUTH...AND LOVE!”
At the end of the Great War, German soldiers return home to find the social fabric and civil order disintegrating as communist gangs roam the streets, and food and jobs become scarce. Riots and massacres lead the erstwhile average men to become cynical and desperate.
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Part of All Quiet On The Western Front Collection
2 films
Cast
25 people
John 'Dusty' King
Ernst
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Richard Cromwell
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Slim Summerville
Tjaden
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Jesse James
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Andy Devine
Willy
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Barbara Read
Lucy
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Louise Fazenda
Angelina
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Noah Beery Jr.
Wessling
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Maurice Murphy
Albert
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John Emery
Captain Von Hagen
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Etienne Girardot
Mayor
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Twentieth Century
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Lionel Atwill
Prosecutor
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Henry Hunter
Bethke
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James Whale Director · R.C. Sherriff Screenplay Charles Kenyon Screenplay
United States release June 1, 1937 · Produced in United States
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Studio
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · June 1, 1937
Theatrical
France
January 8, 1938 · Theatrical
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