M*A*S*H Gives A D*A*M*N.
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.
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Comic, character-led, meticulous and ironic.
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Mar 20244/10
**Without ever becoming a classic, this is a film that had its own space and time.** There are certain films that, despite being forty or fifty years old, seem to maintain all their relevance and pertinence. These films generally surpass the test of time and continue to win new audiences, generation after generation. On the other hand, there are films that are a portrait of the time in which they were made, and belong to that specific time and need to be understood in the light of that particular moment. The plot unfolds during the Korean War, which occurred shortly after the Second World War and divided two countries that are still at war, although it is a frozen conflict. The action focuses on a mobile medical unit near the front line, where a group of doctors and nurses seek, through humor and sarcasm, to lighten the tense environment and forget the surrounding danger, ignoring and mocking their superiors. As you can see, we cannot understand the film without delving into the mentality of the 70s. At a time when American youth were shouting for peace and against the war in Vietnam, what film would make more sense than a comic parody of the army? Korea had been recent and did not
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Cast
- Donald SutherlandHawkeye Pierce
- Elliott GouldTrapper John McIntyre
- Tom SkerrittDuke Forrest
- Sally KellermanMaj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan
- Robert DuvallMaj. Frank Burns
- Roger BowenLt. Col. Henry Blake
- René AuberjonoisFather John Mulcahy
- David ArkinSt. Major Wade Vollmer
- Jo Ann PflugLt. 'Dish' Schneider
- Gary BurghoffCpl. 'Radar' O'Reilly
Crew
- Robert AltmanDirector
- Ring Lardner Jr.Screenplay
- Richard HookerNovel
- Harold E. StineDirector of Photography
- Johnny MandelOriginal Music Composer
- Danford B. GreeneEditor
- Ingo PremingerProducer
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