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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. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939. A 1971 film adaptation was written and directed by Trumbo.
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- Anti-war novel
- Dalton Trumbo
- September 3, 1939, J. B. Lippincott
Aug 4, 1971 · 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. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
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- Drama, War
- Dalton Trumbo
- 1971-08-04
Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 American independent epic anti-war film written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, in his directorial debut, based on his 1938 novel of the same name. The film stars Timothy Bottoms , Kathy Fields , Marsha Hunt , Jason Robards , Donald Sutherland and Diane Varsi .
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- $767,794 (US/Canada theatrical rentals) or $1 million
- Bruce Campbell
- Jerry Fielding
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. War has plunged Army soldier Joe Bonham (Timothy Bottoms) into an unending nightmare. Hit by an artillery shell in World War I, Joe has suffered injuries that have ...
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- Dalton Trumbo
- PG
- Timothy Bottoms
Published in 1939, Johnny Got His Gun is about a WWI soldier who wakes in a hospital and is forced to come to terms with his horrific injuries. The book is heavy, claustrophobic, disturbing, joyous at times, manic at others, and all-around soul crushing.
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Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun" smelled like that kind of anti-war film. It came out of the Cannes Film Festival with three awards and a slightly pious aroma, as if it had been made for joyless Student Peace Union types of thirty-five years ago. But it isn't like that at all.
Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories, unable to distinguish ...
