Johnny Got His Gun (film)
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Johnny Got His Gun | |
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Directed by | Dalton Trumbo |
Produced by | Bruce Campbell |
Written by | Dalton Trumbo |
Starring | Timothy Bottoms Kathy Fields Jason Robards Donald Sutherland |
Music by | Jerry Fielding |
Cinematography | Jules Brenner |
Distributed by | Cinemation Industries |
Release date(s) | 1971 |
Running time | 111 min. |
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Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 anti-war film written and directed by Dalton Trumbo and starred by Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland.
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A young American soldier, hit by a shell on the last day of the First World War, lies in a hospital bed, a quadruple amputee who has lost his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious, and able to reason, and tries to communicate to his doctors his wish that he be put on show in a carnival as a demonstration of the horrors of war.