MASH (1970)

Regisseur:

Robert Altman

Drehbuchautoren:

Richard Hooker (novel)
Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

6. April 1970 (Brazil)

Genre:

Komödie | Kriegsfilm | Drama

Werbezeile:

M*A*S*H Hysteria

Plot:

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Plot Keywords:

Alcoholism | Acronym In Title | Coffin | Clairvoyant | Ignorance

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 14 wins & 19 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

The father of black comedies.

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 23	7:15 AM	AMC
Tue. July 29	1:30 PM	AMC

Besetzung

Donald Sutherland	...	Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce
Elliott Gould	...	Capt. 'Trapper John' McIntyre
Tom Skerritt	...	Capt. Augustus 'Duke' Forrest
Sally Kellerman	...	Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan
Robert Duvall	...	Maj. 'Frank' Burns
Roger Bowen	...	Lt. Col. Henry Blake
Rene Auberjonois	...	Father Mulcahy
David Arkin	...	SSgt. Wade Douglas Vollmer
Jo Ann Pflug	...	Lt. Maria 'Dish' Schneider
Gary Burghoff	...	Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly
Fred Williamson	...	Capt. Oliver Harmon 'Spearchucker' Jones
Michael Murphy	...	Capt. Ezekiel 'Me Lai' Marston IV
Indus Arthur	...	Lt. Leslie
Ken Prymus	...	Pvt. Seidman
Bobby Troup	...	SSgt. Gorman

Alternativ:

M*A*S*H (USA) (alternative spelling)
M.A.S.H. (Österreich) (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for sexual content. (edited version)

Länge:

116 Min | USA:112 Min (PG version)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch | Japanisch | Koreanisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:L | Canada:14A (video rating) | Canada:A (Nova Scotia) (cut US version) | West Germany:18 (original rating) | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Peru:18 | Singapore:PG | UK:15 (video rating) (1987) | UK:X (original rating) (cut) | USA:PG (cut) | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Canada:R (Nova Scotia)

Drehorte:

Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

Aspen Productions (I)

Dies und das:

Robert Altman says that during filming, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland together went to the studio and complained that Altman was filming too much of the secondary characters. They requested that he be removed from the film, but the studio refused. After the film was completed and received its accolades, only Gould confessed the matter to Altman. As a result, he received parts in other Altman pictures, whereas the director never again used Sutherland.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: In the shower, the dog joins the group and sits down between Trapper John and Hawkeye just before Trapper cues the drum roll. In the group shots after Hot Lips is down on the shower floor, the dog is gone.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: Radar.
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: Yes, sir. I'll get ahold of Major Burns...
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: I want you to get a hold of Major Burns...
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: ...Tell him to hold a couple day surgeons over into the night shift.
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: Tell him we're going to have hold a couple of surgeons over from the day shift out of the night shift.
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: I'll put in a call to General Hammond in Seoul...
Lt. Col. Henry Braymore Blake: Get General Hammond down there in Seoul, tell him to send us those new surgeons right away.
Cpl. Walter 'Radar' O'Reilly: ...I hope he sends us those two new surgeons. We're sure gonna need'em.
[Leaves]
[...]

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Soundtrack:

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The father of black comedies.

I enjoyed "MASH", the classic t.v. series and I'll say the same for the movie version, which is also a classic.

It's a great and wildly funny tale of two rebelling surgeons, "Hawkeye" (Donald Sutherland) and "Trapper John" (Elliot Gould), who both turn the camp into a zoo when they're not working on wounded American soldiers during the Korean War. How they get rid of another surgeon, Major Frank Burns (Robert Duvall) is good and make the life of the camp's head nurse, Major "Hot Lips" O'Houlihan (Sally Kellerman) a living nightmare is even more hilarious.

The movie was directed by Robert Altman, who deserved an Oscar as does as Sutherland and Gould.

Overall, "MASH" is the father of black comedies.