When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh realities of combat.
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Louis Wolheim as Stanislas 'Kat' Katczinsky
Lew Ayres as Paul Bäumer
John Wray as Himmelstoss
Arnold Lucy as Kantorek
Ben Alexander as Franz Kemmerich
Scott Kolk as Leer
Owen Davis Jr. as Peter
Walter Rogers as Behn
William Bakewell as Albert Kropp
Russell Gleason as Mueller
Richard Alexander as Westhus
Harold Goodwin as Detering
Slim Summerville as Tjaden
G. Pat Collins as Bertinck
Beryl Mercer as Paul's Mother
Edmund Breese as Herr Meyer
Ernie Adams as 2nd Medic Orderly (uncredited)
Marion Clayton Anderson as Anna Bäumer (uncredited)
Poupée Andriot as French Girl (uncredited)
Vince Barnett as Assistant Cook (uncredited)
Daisy Belmore as Frau Kemmerick (uncredited)
Glen Boles as Young Soldier (uncredited)
Heinie Conklin as Joseph Hammacher (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril as Suzanne (uncredited)
Renée Damonde as French Girl (uncredited)
Arthur Gardner as Student (uncredited)
Raymond Griffith as Gérard Duval (uncredited)
Ellen Hall as Young Girl (uncredited)
William Irving as Ginger - the Cook (uncredited)
Frederick Kohner as Minor Role (uncredited)
Frank Leichtfried as Minor Role (uncredited)
Tom London as 1st Medic Orderly (uncredited)
Bertha Mann as Sister Libertine (uncredited)
Joan Marsh as Poster Girl (uncredited)
Edwin Maxwell as Herr Bäumer (uncredited)
Jack McHugh as Schoolboy (uncredited)
Maurice Murphy as Soldier (uncredited)
Robert Parrish as Schoolboy (uncredited)
Bodil Rosing as Mother of Hospital Patient (uncredited)
Wolfgang Staudte as Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Sutherland as Minor Role (uncredited)
David Tyrell as Soldier (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon as Charwoman (uncredited)
Fred Zinnemann as German Soldier / French Ambulance Driver (uncredited)