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  • Actors: Don 'Red' Barry, Timothy Bottoms, Craig Bovia, Peter Brocco, Judy Howard Chaikin
  • Directors: Dalton Trumbo
  • Writers: Dalton Trumbo, Luis Buñuel
  • Producers: Bruce Campbell, Christopher Trumbo, Tom Tryon, Tony Monaco
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Arrow Films
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Jun 2004
  • Run Time: 115 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00023JH68
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,289 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Dalton Trumbo adapts and directs his own novel. A moving drama which realistically depicts the horrors and evil of war. A youthful combatant suffers horrific shell damage on the last day of the First World War. He is so horribly wounded and disfigured--his legs and arms amputated, his eyes, ears, nose and mouth destroyed--that he begs to be allowed to die. Still conscious and full of reason, he asks that he be used as a shocking demonstration of the horrors of war.

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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Johnny got his gun, 3 Sep 2004
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This is one of the most powerful movies i have ever watched, i guess the impact and origionality of this film makes it more of a one time watch than something you can see over and over again. This isnt a bad factor though, as the impact of watching it for the first time is one that you will never forget.
While the movie flitters between the present and Joe's memories, the atmosphere never changes, constantly drenched in depression and despair. While every second of the movie adds to the macabre feeling, one of the most clostraphobic scenes comes when Joe realising and having to come to terms with the fact that he has no arms, no legs, and no face and that he is trapped inside his mind for the rest of his 'life.' Its impossible to even imagine being in such a horrific position. The scenes featuring Joe's hallucinations of Christ are especially intriguing and sadenning at the same time. The ending shows off the purity and heart of some people and likewise the stubbornness and twisted nature of others, all this surrounded by a incredibly heavy atmosphere.
The overall appearence that this film takes on is an intense portrait of the horrific nature of war. The sight and the thought of Joe's condition is enough to turn anyone anti-war and for that the director is successful. It gives a devastatingly real insight into what could happen to what the government uses as nameless puppet soldiers, and shows that the soldiers actually have lives, relationships, famillies and hopes that are obliterated as they're sent to war to die or even worse, end up like Joe at such young stages of their lives, upon someonelses desicion.
Horrifying, gripping, unforgetable and real!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "SOS, Kill me", 4 May 2006
What would you do if you lost your arms, your legs, you cannot talk and you get confined to a bedroom in some gloomy hospital? Well, that's the thing about this movie. A young man went to war and ended like a human waste. What we understand is that the war is not a joke, not a bomb and explosion movie. War is this, a mutilated guy who only wants to die to end the nightmare.

Johnny give us his perspective of his environment and of his new "world": feeding, bath, test, people coming and so on. The continuos flashbakcs give us more perspective of his life and what he was before the accident.

Sometimes hard to see, it's a beautiful movie in the end, powerful and emotive.
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Horror of War, 26 May 2004
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The Horror of War: This film has haunted me ever since I saw it on television a number of years ago. Like the film “All Quiet on The Western Front” it is a timeless anti-war movie quickly dispelling the “Action and Glamour” myth of war. As a 3rd generation volunteer of Combat Medics (myself a casualty of Desert Storm (Father serving in the Korean War)) I can bear witness to my Grandfathers event of not retuning home from France to the Beat of the Drum and the Flag waving at the end of the Great War as he had to remain in Service an extra year as a Medic looking after the backlog of casualties. After the Glories of Battle the filth of The Battle is dumped into the Medics, Doctors and Nurses lap; “The Living Dead – The Unwanted”. Anyone who watches the film will remember it again in November when the Poppy Tubs come out. This film represents the attitude of the “system” to this very day. A must watch........

Also a compelling plea for Governments to find a peaceful settlement / solution before condemning the youth of their own Nation... R.A.B.

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