Reissues

When a St. Louis theatre manager fortnight ago revived the cinema's most eloquent preachment against war, All Quiet on the Western Front, that nine-year-old picture played to packed houses. Last week Universal, producers of All Quiet and of Author Erich Maria Remarque's equally tragic sequel, The Road Back, announced plans to reissue both films. To All Quiet will be added a new commentary, fore & aft, and some of the 3,000 feet snipped from the film after it left the hands of Director Lewis Milestone. Universal will also restore to The Road Back controversial footage on Nazi rearmament which was eliminated to spare German sensibilities, add new scenes and a few new characters, including Adolf Hitler.

Other war reissues promised or in prospect last week: H. G. Wells's Things to Come (1936), which proposes bombing cities with sleeping potion as a way to end war, The Big Parade (1925), What Price Glory (1926), Cavalcade (1933).

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