The Road Back

Directed by James Whale

Written by Erich Maria Remarque, R.C. Sherriff, Charles Kenyon

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.

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