Johnny Got His Gun

"The most shattering experience you'll ever live."

1971 1h 52m EN

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7.5

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67%

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METACRITIC

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7.8

IMDB

★7.5TMDB · 430🍅67%Rotten Tomatoes●71Metacritic★7.8IMDB · 19,613

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Synopsis

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A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.

“The most shattering experience you'll ever live.”

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Cast

Timothy Bottoms
Joe Bonham
Kathy Fields
Kareen
Marsha Hunt
Joe's Mother
Jason Robards
Joe's Father
Donald Sutherland
Christ
Charles McGraw
Mike Burkeman
Sandy Brown Wyeth
Lucky
Don 'Red' Barry
Jody Simmons

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Dalton Trumbo
Writers: Dalton Trumbo, Luis Buñuel
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $1.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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ERA

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55 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Dalton Trumbo, shot by Jules Brenner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Jerry Fielding. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Millie Moore shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Timothy Bottoms and Kathy Fields and Marsha Hunt carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The most shattering experience you'll ever live.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0067277 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Dalton Trumbo directs. Jules Brenner behind the camera. Jerry Fielding scores. Millie Moore cuts. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $1.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
255 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Directed by Dalton Trumbo, shot by Jules Brenner. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Jerry Fielding. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Millie Moore shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Timothy Bottoms and Kathy Fields and Marsha Hunt carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The most shattering experience you'll ever live.".
8IMDB entry: tt0067277 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Classified under 12 themes, including "blindness and impaired vision", "experiment", "amputation", "world war i".