MASH (1970)

Storyline

Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. That’s where two young surgeons, Duke and Hawkeye end up during the Korean War. There is no plot as such, but instead a series of episodes during which they put their stamp on the camp including a football game against a larger unit with thousands riding on it, a trip to Tokyo to operate on a congressman’s son and play a little golf, and finding out if the head nurse is a natural blonde. M*A*S*H, the classic 1970 Robert Altman Korean War army-life military dark comedy (“Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr.”; “From a novel by Richard Hooker”; nominated for the Best Director and Best Picture Academy Award) starring Donald Sutherland (as ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce), Elliott Gould (as ‘Trapper John’ McIntyre), Tom Skerritt (as ‘Duke’ Forrest), Sally Kellerman (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role; as ‘Hot Lips’ O’Houlihan), Robert Duvall (as Major ‘Frank’ Burns), Jo Ann Pflug (as ‘Dish’ Schneider), Rene Auberjonois (as Father Mulcahy), Gary Burghoff (as ‘Radar’ O’Reilly), Roger Bowen (as Colonel Henry Blake), Fred Williamson (as ‘Spearchucker’ Jones; black African-American former NFL Oakland Raiders/Kansas City Chiefs professional football player, who successfully appeared in movies, mostly “blaxploitation” ones), Kim Atwood (as Ho-Jon), John Schuck (as ‘Painless’ Waldowski), and David Arkin (as the PA announcer)