Feb 18th
Johnny Got His Gun*
(US 1971)
A disfigured American soldier in WWI is too badly mutilated for his superiors to allow him into the outside world.
Gloomy anti-war tirade from a noted novel (probably America's variation on All Quiet on the Western Front), but here coming across as rather claustrophobic tragedy, with the author lacking a little objectivity in adapting the material himself, but nonetheless occasionally picturesque and with a powerful ending.
Written and Directed by: Dalton Trumbo, from his novel.
Producer: Bruce Campbell.
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Jason Robards, Charles McGraw, Marsha Hunt, Donald Sutherland (as Jesus Christ), Diane Varsi.
Photography: Jules Brenner.
Music: Jerry Fielding.
Preceded by:
Taking Down the Spanish Flag
(US 1898. Vitagraph. 40secs. bw. silent; The first "propaganda" war film, a statement of America's victory in the Spanish wars of that time.; d: J. Stewart Blackton.)
Johnny Got His Gun*
(US 1971)
A disfigured American soldier in WWI is too badly mutilated for his superiors to allow him into the outside world.
Gloomy anti-war tirade from a noted novel (probably America's variation on All Quiet on the Western Front), but here coming across as rather claustrophobic tragedy, with the author lacking a little objectivity in adapting the material himself, but nonetheless occasionally picturesque and with a powerful ending.
Written and Directed by: Dalton Trumbo, from his novel.
Producer: Bruce Campbell.
Starring: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Jason Robards, Charles McGraw, Marsha Hunt, Donald Sutherland (as Jesus Christ), Diane Varsi.
Photography: Jules Brenner.
Music: Jerry Fielding.
Preceded by:
Taking Down the Spanish Flag
(US 1898. Vitagraph. 40secs. bw. silent; The first "propaganda" war film, a statement of America's victory in the Spanish wars of that time.; d: J. Stewart Blackton.)
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