M*A*S*H* = Mash (Captioned) | Robert Altman | 1970 | ACMI collection

Hailed as one of the best comedies ever made! Army surgeons during the Korean War develop a lunatic lifestyle in order to cope with the everyday horrors encountered in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. The film mixes slapstick with tragedy and pokes merciless fun at military pomposity, empty religion and incompetence. It sticks its tongue out at hypocrisy - the same attitudes which have mad the television series so successful. Based on a novel by Richard Hooker, the film stars Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould and Tom Skerritt.

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Credits

production company

Aspen Productions

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

co-producer

Ingo Preminger

Leon Ericksen

director

Robert Altman

Duration

01:54:00:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1970

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302884

Language

English

Audience classification

MA

Subject categories

Adaptations

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → Anti-war works

Armed Forces, Military, War & Weapons → War

Closed captioning

Comedy

Comedy → Black comedy

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - United States

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical care

Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Medical personnel

Literature → American literature - Film and video adaptations

War films

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q494085

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MASH = Mash (Captioned)

United States, 1970

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