Johnny Got His Gun

Johnny Got His Gun1971

Director: Dalton Trumbo
Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Donald Sutherland, Jason Robards
Genre: Drama, War
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 106 minutes

Johnny Got His Gun is an anti-war novel written in 1938 by American novelist, and later blacklisted screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, and published in September 1939 by J. B. Lippincott. The novel won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Origi… more »



Joe:
There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night long. Once in a while he lets you steal a pot. But if you stay in the game long enough, you've got to lose. And once you've lost there's no way back, no way at all.

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