Guns of the Trees

Name: Guns of the Trees
Director: Jonas Mekas
Released: 1961
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 6.9
Cast: Adolfas Mekas, Frances Stillman, Ben Carruthers, Argus Spear Juillard, Frank Kuenstler

1961 · 85 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 391 VOTES · DIR. Jonas Mekas

Overview

A depressed woman, Barbara, is on the verge of suicide while a man she meets in a church and a married couple try to convince her that life is worth living.

Dialogue Timeline — 457 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:19 Dear Gregory

00:05:18 I walked on the banks of the Tin Can Banana dock

00:07:55 Look, Frank...

00:15:17 The cars...

00:17:00 Why should I learn to live with pain?

00:18:27 and sparrows in the leaves all wam and damp from the rain.

00:23:04 With their obsession on property and the vanishing Selfhood!

00:27:30 warmly clothed against the chilled brown sun

00:34:07 I got the works(cha! cha!) I got the atom bomb!

00:35:07 Aint nobody gonna burn down my Miami Hotel!

00:39:42 The scientists...

00:42:58 No

00:43:57 I don't know how to make you understand me.

00:45:24 What is it the matter of?

00:49:18 It is hurting us.

00:51:42 - You like it, Gregory? - Enjoy it?

00:56:48 "What is the way out for an asp tree?

01:00:24 Let it rain!

01:02:49 and I watched dark clouds pass the sun.

01:06:31 I'm a wolf. I'm going back to the woods.

01:08:46 You're flat!

01:10:24 And I'm searching for it again.

01:16:11 History will maket his poem prophetic

01:24:33 we are blessed by our own seed

Cast & Characters

Adolfas Mekas Gregory Frances Stillman Barbara Ben Carruthers Ben Argus Spear Juillard Argus Frank Kuenstler Frank Louis Brigante Luis Sudie Bond Sudie Melvin Clay Man Looking for Job Anne Flannagan Pregnant Woman Leonard Hicks Leonard

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed457

Dialogue density5.4 lines / min

First line00:02:19

Final line01:24:33

Production Record

DirectorJonas Mekas

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes391