Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Dalton Trumbo's Johnny got his gun / World Entertainers, Ltd. ; novel and screenplay, Dalton Trumbo ; producer, Bruce Campbell ; director, Dalton Trumbo.

Publisher, Date:

Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory, [2009]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

After a mortar shell leaves his body mangled on the final day of World War I, young Joe Bonham lies trapped in a hospital bed. He is a fully conscious quadruple amputee who cannot speak, hear or see. He is left to wander within his own mind and goes between his harsh reality and memories of a happier life long gone. Delve into the mind of a man lost somewhere on the edges of sanity and insanity, life and death.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: PG; mild language, crude humor and some thematic elements.

Subjects:

Amputees -- Psychology -- Drama.

Arm -- Amputation -- Drama.

Leg -- Amputation -- Drama.

Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries -- United States -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, American -- Drama.

Genre:

War films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.

Campbell, Bruce, 1932-1996.

Bottoms, Timothy, 1949-

Robards, Jason.

Fields, Kathy, 1947-

Sutherland, Donald, 1935-2024

Hunt, Marsha, 1917-2022

Varsi, Diane.

Fielding, Jerry, 1922-1980.

Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976. Johnny got his gun.

World Entertainers, Ltd.

Shout! Factory (Firm)

Other Title:

Johnny got his gun

Notes:

Based on the novel by Dalton Trumbo.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1971.

Special features: "Dalton Trumbo: rebel in Hollywood" documentary (2006); 2009 interview with Timothy Bottoms; music video "One" by Metallica; rare behind-the-scenes footage with commentary by Timothy Bottoms and director of photography Jules Brenner; 1940 radio adapation of Johnny got his gun starring James Cagney; "Johnny got his gun" article from American Cinematographer (1971); original theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Jules Brenner ; composer and conductor, Jerry Fielding ; editor, Millie Moore ; supervising editor, William P. Dornisch.

Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Kathy Fields, Donald Sutherland, Marsha Hunt, Diane Varsi.

DVD, NTSC; 16.9 widescreen; Dolby digital 2.0 remastered from a monaural soundtrack.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

9781603992602

160399260X

9786312827504 : DVD

631282750X : DVD

Publisher Number:

SF11312

Other Number:

314192688

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

668021

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Johnny g