Johnny Got His Gun
The most shattering experience you'll ever live.
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A harrowing, introspective anti-war meditation on consciousness and suffering, told through the fragmented memories of a soldier trapped in his own destroyed body.
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
Essence
Ensemble
Timothy Bottoms
Joe Bonham
Kathy Fields
Kareen
Marsha Hunt
Joe's Mother
Jason Robards
Joe's Father
Donald Sutherland
Christ
Charles McGraw
Mike Burkeman
Sandy Brown Wyeth
Lucky
Don 'Red' Barry
Jody Simmons
Peter Brocco
Ancient Prelate
Kendell Clarke
Hospital Offical
Eric Christmas
Corporal Timlon
Eduard Franz
Col. / Gen. Tillery
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