MASH (1970)
- Original title
- M*A*S*H
- Directed by
- Robert Altman
- Genre
- drama film, war film, comedy drama, black comedy film, American football film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 1,166 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A group of doctors and support staff run a mobile army hospital during the Korean War. They cope with the horrors of battlefield medicine through sarcasm, pranks, and defiance of authority.
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What happens
M*A*S*H is a 1970 American satirical black comedy war film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hooker's 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the film's storyline setting, the subtext is the Vietnam War – a current event at the time the film was made. After having a panel screen the film, the Army and Air Force Motion Picture Service initially banned M*A*S*H from being shown at army and air force base theaters because it "reflected unfavorably" on the armed services. M*A*S*H became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century Fox. It won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, later named the Palme d'Or, at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival, received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1996, M*A*S*H was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation. The Academy Film Archive preserved M*A*S*H in 2000. The film inspired the television series of the same name, which ran from 1972 to 1983 on CBS. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly, was the only actor playing a major character who appeared in both the film and the television series. Altman despised the TV series, calling it "the antithesis of what we were trying to do" with the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Last Escape (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.