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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Black & White / Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 28, 2009
- Originally Released: 1971
- Label: Shout Factory
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Donald Sutherland & Timothy Bottoms | |
Performer: | Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards, Diane Varsi, Don 'Red' Barry, Peter Brocco, Eric Christmas, Eduard Franz & Robert Cole | |
Directed by | Dalton Trumbo | |
Edited by | William P. Dornisch | |
Screenwriting by | Dalton Trumbo | |
Composition by | Jerry Fielding | |
Cinematography by | Jules Brenner | |
Produced by | Bruce Campbell |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1971 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
[I]t's a delicate and lyrical affair, full of evocative and stylised flashbacks. There are some wonderful scenes of Bottoms with Jason Robards...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/5 --
Sadly, time has not made this story any less relevant or potent.
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 2/4 --
Trumbo, directing his first film, drives home his points in a somewhat obvious, often awkward fashion that is overly talky, but so disquieting is his story and the reality underlying it that it is difficult not to be moved by the film.
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TV Guide
Rating: 3.5/5 --
a sobering, grueling look at us
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Filmcritic.com
Rating: B+ --
strong historical and literate adaptation of a truly remarkable anti-war classic
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Old School Reviews
Rating: 2/5 --
Although Mr. Trumbo is primarily a screenwriter, screenwriting is only the worst of the film's several failures.
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New York Times
[Trumbo's] filmmaking is frugal -- jump-cuts state the passage of time, a languid fade to yellow signifies solar warmth.
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CinePassion
Product Description:
A moving drama which realistically depicts the horrors and evil of war. A youthful combatant in the first World War finds himself in a hospital bed with both of his arms and legs amputated.
Product Description:
Starring Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards, Donald Sutherland, Marsha Hunt and Diane Varsi.
A young American soldier (Timothy Bottoms) is wounded by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. He remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams, memories and conversations with Jesus (Donald Sutherland), unable to distinguish whether he is awake or dreaming.
Dalton Trumbo, author of the famous 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. In 1947, he refused to testify before a congressional committee investigating alleged Communist infiltration of the film industry. Blacklisted for nearly a decade, he wrote numerous scripts under pseudonyms including Roman Holiday and Gun Crazy until he was finally credited for his work on Exodus and Spartacus in 1960.