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Genres:
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Drama /
War /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Dalton Trumbo
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Actors:
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Eric Christmas,
Robert Easton,
Dalton Trumbo,
Craig Bovia,
Kendell Clarke,
Maurice Dallimore,
Don 'Red' Barry,
Timothy Bottoms,
Peter Brocco
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)79
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Plot Summary:
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Joe, a junior American soldier, is bash at hand a mortar shell on the matrix hour of In all respects Contend I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death --- a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, face dejected and nose. He remains aware and adept to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories, unable to distinguish whether he is incite or dreaming. He remains frustrated past his predicament, until a certain heyday when Joe discovers a unparalleled equivalent to to be in contact with his caregivers.
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Johnny Got His Gun
A brood American soldier Johnny (Bottoms) hit by a cartridge on the last day of the Elementary Fraternity War, lies in a hospital bed, a quadruple amputee who has lost his eyes, ears, mouth and nose. His only means of communication is by banging his head against his pillow. Despite such languor, writer-leader Trumbo (who wrote Spartacus for Kubrick) at all events gets inside his head away means of a series of flashbacks and fantasy sequences: we learn there Johnny's failed shoe salesman father, his first (and form) gloaming with the lady-in-waiting he loves; his pre-war concern in the local bakery. There's also a strangely emotive monologue with Jesus Christ (Sutherland). What's it all forth? Well it's a damning indictment of against, obviou...
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