Johnny Got His Gun

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was imprisoned during the McCarthy witch-hunts yet won two Oscars under a pseudonym - for Roman Holiday and The Brave One. With Johnny Got His Gun Trumbo directed his own script from his own novel about a First World War soldier who has lost his arms, legs, face, sight, smell and hearing but is kept alive for medical research and experimentation. They think he's a vegetable but he isn't. In fact, he suffers from flashback syndrome and then he has visions of Jesus, played by Donald Sutherland ... then a nurse communicates with him by Morse code and ... oh, it just drags on in its excruciating, cringe-inducing, self-important way. Simply awful, but the French loved it, giving it three awards at Cannes.