Film
The Road Back
United States- Director
- James Whale
- Year
- 1937
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.
Top cast
John 'Dusty' King
Ernst
Richard Cromwell
Ludwig
Slim Summerville
Tjaden
Andy Devine
Willy
Barbara Read
Lucy
Louise Fazenda
Angelina
Noah Beery Jr.
Wessling
Maurice Murphy
Albert
John Emery
Captain Von Hagen
Etienne Girardot
Mayor
Lionel Atwill
Prosecutor
Henry Hunter
Bethke
Larry J. Blake
Weil (as Larry Blake)
Gene Garrick
Giesicke
Marilyn Harris
Maria - Ernst's Sister
Jean Rouverol
Elsa
Spring Byington
Ernst's Mother
Frank Reicher
Ernst's Father
Directed by
James Whale
Written by
Charles Kenyon, R.C. Sherriff
Produced by
Edmund Grainger
