![]() The story strongly reflects the emotional strategy of pacifist sentiment between the wars, and in the film makes some effort to re-create not only the intentions, but also the tone of that strategy.The hero of "Johnny Got His Gun," whose name is Joe, is an American soldier who on the last day of World War I, has his arms, his legs and his face blown off by an artillery shell.Nevertheless, he survives, and, as a medical curiosity, he is kept alive beneath sheets and a gauze mask by doctors who believe that his brain is so damaged as to render him a living vegetable. ![]() ![]() Trumbo's own antiwar novel, originally published in September, 1939, almost on the eve of World War II. 59th Street Twin Cinemas, was written and directed by Dalton Trumbo, after Mr. ![]() "Johnny Got His Gun," which opened yesterday at the R.K.O. ![]()
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