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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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
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)