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Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist Dalton Trumbo and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. [1] The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. [2] A 1971 film adaptation was written and directed by Trumbo.
Johnny Got His Gun: Directed by Dalton Trumbo. With Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards. During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack.
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Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 American independent anti-war film written and directed by Dalton Trumbo. Based on his own novel of the same name, it was Trumbo's first and only directorial effort. The film stars Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, and Diane Varsi.
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Trumbo's 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun, won a National Book Award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) that year. The novel was inspired by an article Trumbo read about a soldier who was horribly disfigured during World War I.
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Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel set during World War I. Perhaps the best-known books in that genre are Erich Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, both of which came out a few years before Johnny Got His Gun was first published.
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English. Release Date (Streaming) Jul 25, 2011. Runtime. 1h 51m. War has plunged Army soldier Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) into an unending nightmare. Hit by an artillery shell in World War...
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