Word: trumbo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe in message pictures," Daiton Trumbo said recently, and Johnny Got His Gun, his first film as a di rector, comes heavily stamped and post marked "Urgent." As one of Holly wood's most prominent scenarists (Exodus, Hawaii), Trumbo has always had a tendency to bear down so heavily that he often blunts the points he is la boring so hard to drive home. He does so again in Johnny, which he adapted from his own 1939 antiwar novel...
...Trumbo's pacifism is patently honest, but he presents his convictions as if they were credentials, assuming that audiences in sympathy with his ideas must automatically accept his art. Having the right instincts is simply not enough...
...virtuosity receives ample display, the buzkashi alone is thunderously exciting and imparts a startling sense of participation. But he has tried to do too much. Besides his obsession with courage, he obviously also wanted to say something about greed, honor and duty, but the themes never mesh. Dal ton Trumbo's screenplay and his fake Arabian Nights dialogue do nothing to help. There is much talk of "the coolness of my shop" and characters greet each other with such fulsome salutations as "Peace on you, O master of the stables." Miss Taylor-Young bolts across the Panavision screen flaring...
...Peace Treaty and his disgust with the war. So while his two-day visit to Boston includes a day-long round of interviews, tapings and television appearances, it primarily centers on a fund-raising cocktail party with Noam Chomsky speaking against the war and Sutherland reading passages from Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Get Your Gun, the money raised going to support various drives to bring the People's Peace Treaty before the American electorate...
...plays a prostitute. (Currently, he has also joined Fonda and a number of other entertainers in expressing their willingness to entertain Gl's on American bases-as a counter to the Hope-Raye junkets to Asia.) And he's also completed a cameo appearance in he screen adaptation of Trumbo's Johnny. With associations like that it's only natural to ask how Hollywood views his political involvement...