The Road Back
Drama
War
History
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.
1937-06-01
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Cast
Director
James Whale
John 'Dusty' King as Ernst
Richard Cromwell as Ludwig
Slim Summerville as Tjaden
Andy Devine as Willy
Barbara Read as Lucy
Louise Fazenda as Angelina
Noah Beery Jr. as Wessling
Maurice Murphy as Albert
John Emery as Captain Von Hagen
Etienne Girardot as Mayor
Lionel Atwill as Prosecutor
Henry Hunter as Bethke
Larry J. Blake as Weil (as Larry Blake)
Gene Garrick as Giesicke
Marilyn Harris as Maria - Ernst's Sister
Jean Rouverol as Elsa
Spring Byington as Ernst's Mother
Frank Reicher as Ernst's Father
Arthur Hohl as Heinrich
William B. Davidson as Bartscher
Al Shean as Markheim
Edwin Maxwell as Principal
Clara Blandick as Willy's Mother
Samuel S. Hinds as Defense Attorney
Robert Warwick as Judge