At the dawn the 1930s, I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to show a realistic depiction of war. With the Motion Picture Production Code (also known as The Hays Code) having been adopted by most motion picture studios in 1930, this film came out at the very beginning of the controversial code’s inaugural year. That, on top of the general distaste for anything anti-war within the first 50 years of the 20th century, it is safe to assume that many elements of this film were digested with much scrutiny. But that is part of what makes this film so phenomenal.