Johnny Got His Gun

Name: Johnny Got His Gun
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1971-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 7.5

About Johnny Got His Gun

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

Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 war film directed by Dalton Trumbo. Its themes are experiment, world war i, US army, and anti war.

Timothy Bottoms appears as Joe Bonham, Kathy Fields as Kareen, Marsha Hunt as Joe's Mother, and Jason Robards as Joe's Father. It runs 112 minutes and was released in August 1971.

The screenplay is by Dalton Trumbo and Luis Buñuel. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

Hush, Full Metal Jacket, and The Hurt Locker make useful companions to Johnny Got His Gun, all filed under deaf, deaf-mute, and mute. TMDB voters put it at 7.5 out of 10 across 433 votes and it carries a PG rating.