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Johnny Got His Gun. 111 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1971. Roger Ebert. January 1, 1971. 3 min read. I’ve never much liked anti-war films. They’ve never much stopped war, for one thing. For another, they attract hushed and reverential praise which speaks of their universality and the urgency of their messages. Most anti-war films come so burdened ...
Johnny Got His Gun. PG 1971 1h 51m Drama CTA List. 67% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 87% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings. War has plunged Army soldier Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) into an unending nightmare ...
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- Dalton Trumbo
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- Timothy Bottoms
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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- Dalton Trumbo
- 1971-08-04
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 .
Sep 10, 2012 · The film is often sentimental, sometimes brilliant as well as horrifying, and it is intriguing to speculate on what Buñuel, whom Trumbo originally wanted to direct, would have made of it.
“Johnny Got His Gun” is a delirious fever dream spanning not just one night, but almost a half a century of American history. Based Dalton Trumbo’s iconic 1939 novel, “Johnny Got His Gun” sees the screenwriter/author returning to his own material decades later; this time to direct its cinematic adaption.
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Johnny Got His Gun is a motion picture based on a 1938 anti-war book that used World War I as the setting. It should be noted that Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), author of the book and director of the movie was a brilliant Hollywood screenwriter who also wrote the scripts for several Academy Award winning movies such as Exodus, Roman Holiday, Spartacus and The Brave One.
