7.9 Score

1966 • 2h 36min • Approved • Action, Adventure, Drama, War

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"There was no quiet on the Western Front!"

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

IMDb 7.1

RT 100%

Director

John Guillermin

Writers

David Pursall

Gerald Hanley

Jack Seddon

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George Peppard

Lt. Bruno Stachel

James Mason

General Count von Klugermann

Ursula Andress

Countess Kaeti von Klugermann

Jeremy Kemp

Willi von Klugermann

Karl Michael Vogler

Colonel Otto Heidemann

Anton Diffring

Holbach

Harry Townes

Kettering

Peter Woodthorpe

Rupp

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