JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN

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• Release Year: 1971
• Genre: Drama; War
• Plot: After a shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) lies trapped in a hospital bed, a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see, left to wander within his own mind between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone.; ; Written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, the 'Hollywood Ten's' most celebrated screenwriter (Spartacus, Exodus, Roman Holiday), Johnny Got His Gun is based on his award-winning 1939 antiwar novel, which earned a new generation of fans during the Vietnam era. The flim - which costars Jason Robards and features Donald Sutherland in a powerful performance as Jesus Christ - won the 1971 Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Special du Jury. Here at last on DVD is the moving, provocative and masterlly crafted cult film that takes you into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.
• Cast: Timothy Bottoms; Kathy Fields; Marsha Hunt; Jason Robards; Donald Sutherland; Charles McGraw; Sandy Brown Wyeth; Don 'Red' Barry; Peter Brocco; Kendell Clarke; Eric Christmas; Eduard Franz; Craig Bovia; Judy Howard Chaikin; Dalton Trumbo; Maurice Dallimore; Robert Easton; Larry Fleischman; Anthony Geary; Ed Gilbert; Ben Hammer; Milton Barnes; Wayne Heffley; Lynn Hanratty; Ernestine Johnston; Joseph Kaufmann; Mike Lee; Kerry MacLane; William Mims; Byron Morrow; Alice Nunn; Marge Redmond; Jodean Lawrence; Diane Varsi; David Soul; Peter Virgo Jr.; Gigi Vorgan; Jeffrey Walker; Bruce Watson; Winston Churchill; Xus Estruch; Ken Globus; Margaret Pellegrini; Philippe Pétain; Pepe Serna; Arthur Tovey; Tom Tryon; Tsar Nicholas II; Tsarina Alexandra; Etienne Veazie; Cynthia Wilson; Woodrow Wilson
• Director: Dalton Trumbo
• Runtime: 1:46
• Company: Shout Factory
• Media Format: Movie