Title: The Road Back (film)
Content: John King as Ernst ; Richard Cromwell as Ludwig ; Slim Summerville as Tjaden ; Andy Devine as Willy ; Barbara Read as Lucie ; Louise Fazenda as Angelina ; Noah Beery Jr. as Wessling ; Maurice Murphy as Albert ; John Emery as Von Hagen ; Etienne Girardot as Mayor ; Lionel Atwill as Prosecutor ; Henry Hunter as Bethke ; Larry Blake as Weil ; Gene Garrick as Geisicke ; Jean Rouverol as Elsa ; Marilyn Harris as Maria (as Hedwig Ibsen) ; Spring Byington as Ernst's Mother ; Frank Reicher as Ernst's Father ; Arthur Hohl as Heinrich ; William B. Davidson as Bartscher ; Al Shean as Mr. Markheim ; Edwin Maxwell as Principal ; Clara Blandick as Willy's Mother ; Samuel S. Hinds as Defense Attorney ; Robert Warwick as Judge ; Harry Cording as Attendant (uncredited) ; D'Arcy Corrigan as Cab Driver (uncredited) ; Francis Ford as Street Cleaner (uncredited) ; Dwight Frye as Small Man at Rally (uncredited) ; Edward LeSaint as Porter (uncredited) ; Bob McKenzie as Barber (uncredited) ; Edward Van Sloan as President (uncredited) 
Title: The Road Back (film)
Content:  The Road Back is a 1937 American drama war film directed by James Whale, starring John King, Richard Cromwell, and Slim Summerville with a supporting cast featuring Andy Devine, Louise Fazenda, Noah Beery Jr., Lionel Atwill, Spring Byington, Al Shean, and an uncredited Dwight Frye. The screenplay is by Charles Kenyon and R. C. Sherriff from the novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. Combining a strong anti-war message with prescient warnings about the rising dangers of the dictatorship of Nazi Germany, it was intended to be a powerful and controversial picture, and Universal entrusted it to their finest director, 
Title: The Road Back (film)
Content:  Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times panned the film, calling it "an approximation of the novel; it is touched occasionally with the author's bleak spirit. But most of the time it goes its own Hollywooden-head way, playing up the comedy, melodramatizing rather than dramatizing, reaching at last toward a bafflingly inconclusive conclusion ... It is distressing to watch the mutilation of a great theme." Variety called Whale's direction "excellent" but found the story "an emasculated scenario without a strong finish". Harrison's Reports wrote that given the material, the producers "should have turned out a stirring dramatic account of the difficulties 
Title: Back Roads (2018 film)
Content:  Back Roads is a 2018 American drama film directed by Alex Pettyfer, in his directorial debut. The screenplay by Tawni O'Dell and Adrian Lyne was adapted from the best selling novel of the same name by Tawni O'Dell. Starring Alex Pettyfer, Jennifer Morrison, Nicola Peltz, Robert Patrick and Juliette Lewis, the film centers on a young man stuck in the Pennsylvania backwoods caring for his three younger sisters after his mother is arrested for murdering his father. It premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and was released in selected theaters in the United States on December 7, 2018, by Samuel Goldwyn Films, and will also be released on video on demand and digital.
Title: The Road Back (film)
Content:  men, just back from war, in readjusting themselves. Instead of dwelling on these difficulties and arousing the audience's sympathy, the producers saw fit to stress the comedy angle, and to such a point that it weakens the picture's dramatic quality." John Mosher of The New Yorker thought the task of adapting the novel for the screen was a challenging one and gave Whale credit for handling some of the film's "difficulties with tact", but found the comedy element "confusing, almost embarrassing. Also it is definitely not German, and, along with the very American boys of the cast, the essential atmosphere is often 
Title: Back Roads (novel)
Content:  In 2011, it was announced that a film adaptation of the book would be directed by Adrian Lyne. However, the film never made it into production. In late 2015, it was announced that Alex Pettyfer and his producing partner Craig Robinson who setup Upturn Productions in 2015 with the intent of securing literary works that could be made into film or television, secured the rights for a film adaptation of the book. The film, Back Roads went into production in March 2017, with Pettyfer also serving as its director. The film stars Pettyfer as Harley Altmyer, Jennifer Morrison as Callie Mercer, Juliette Lewis as Bonnie Altmyer, Nicola Peltz as Amber Altmyer, and Robert Patrick as Chief Mansour.
Title: The Road Back
Content: 1937, The Road Back – motion picture directed by James Whale and starring, among others, Noah Beery Jr. and Richard Cromwell. 
Title: Back Roads (1981 film)
Content:  Back Roads is a 1981 American romantic comedy film starring Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones. It is directed by Martin Ritt. It got middling reviews and grossed $11 million at the box office. This was the first film produced by CBS Theatrical Films (a short lived film production branch of CBS). The film was distributed by Warner Bros.
Title: The Road Back (film)
Content:  The film was budgeted at $800,000 but went over budget.
Title: No Road Back
Content:  No Road Back is a 1957 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully. The film is notable for being the first major film role for future filmstar Sean Connery. Connery's role is that of a minor gangster who has a speech impediment.

Question: Who was the screenwriter for The Road Back?
Answer: Erich Maria Remarque.
Erich Paul Remark.
Erich Maria Remark.