"" Liesl sneaks outdoors to meet shy, 17 year-old boyfriend Rolf, who is waiting for her in the garden near the pavilion.One of the poignant film""s posters declared it:"A love story of today""s love and laughter."At the time, it was the longest and most expensive Hollywood film since producer David O.Selznick""s ownGone with the Wind (1939).Producer David O.Selznick""s lavish film was an attempt to outdo his previous classic 1939 epic and Best Picture winner, and it was his first production since his other Best Picture Oscar winnerRebecca (1940).When compared to the first anti-war film of the talkie era,All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),The Big Paradeis more a film of escapist entertainment rather than an anti-war treatise, although its powerful battle scenes and staging undoubtedly influenced director Lewis Milestone""s later film.A lotta heels!They begin creepin"" up on ya, tryin"" to sell ya something.They get long claws and hey get a stranglehold on ya and ya squirm and ya duck and ya holler and ya try to push ""em away, but you haven""t got a chance.