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M.A.S.H. [VHS] [1969]

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  • Actors: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall
  • Directors: Robert Altman
  • Writers: Richard Hooker, Ring Lardner Jr.
  • Producers: Ingo Preminger, Leon Ericksen
  • Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
  • Language English, Japanese, Korean
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
  • VHS Release Date: 24 Aug 1998
  • Run Time: 111 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CJH7
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 13,285 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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It's set during the Korean War, in a mobile army surgical hospital. But no one seeing MASH in 1970 confused the film for anything but a caustic comment on the Vietnam War; this is one of the counterculture movies that exploded into the mainstream at the end of the 1960s. Director Robert Altman had laboured for years in television and sporadic feature work when this smash-hit comedy made his name (and allowed him to create an astonishing string of offbeat pictures, culminating in the masterpiece Nashville). Altman's style of cruel humour, overlapping dialogue, and densely textured visuals brought the material to life in an all-new kind of war movie (or, more precisely, antiwar movie). Audiences had never seen anything like it: vaudeville routines played against spurting blood, fuelled with open ridicule of authority. The cast is led by Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland, as the outrageous surgeons Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John McIntyre, with Robert Duvall as the uptight Major Burns and Sally Kellerman in an Oscar-nominated role as nurse "Hot Lips" Houlihan. The film's huge success spawned the long-running TV series, a considerably softer take on the material; of the film's cast, only Gary Burghoff repeated his role on the small screen, as the slightly clairvoyant Radar O'Reilly. --Robert Horton

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MASH--a 1970 comedy-drama set among surgeons drafted into the Korean war--was a breakthrough not just for director Robert Altman but for movie-making in general. Although set in the 50s, there are few who did not realise that the film's anti-war messages were directed at the US involvement in Vietnam. Indeed, the Pentagon banned US servicemen from seeing the film.

Starring Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye Pierce and Elliot Gould as Trapper John McIntyre, two hip young surgeons drafted against their will. Their general attitude--while never corroding either their humanity or their professionalism as surgeons--is one of insolence towards military authority and the arbitrary structures and regulations continually droning from the tannoy system. The film, too, thrives on a lack of attention to conventional order, with its cross-dialogue and random, episodic style reflecting the vivacious and unbuttoned feel of the content.

However, MASH has dated and much of what seemed like "liberating" high jinks, today smacks of sexist, frathouse boorishness and harassment, especially at the expense of Major "Hotlips" Hoolihan (Sally Kellerman), while the episode in which "Painless" plans a suicide out of a fear of being gay reflects the persistence of homophobia even in 60s counterculture. Despite this MASH feels ahead of its time and certainly sharper and blacker than the too-cute sitcom it spawned.

On the DVD: this is an excellent restoration, overseen by Altman himself, in which any obfuscation from the original have been cleaned up, especially the sound quality. As well as a commentary from Altman, there are three separate documentaries, featuring interviews with Altman, the cast and screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr, who had been blacklisted during the anti-Communist witch-hunt which swept through Hollywood in the 1950s. We learn he was initially appalled at how little of his script Altman actually used but was mollified by the Academy Award he received. Altman is candid about the making of the movie ("It wasn't released by Fox, it escaped from Fox"). There's an abundance of similarly rich, anecdotal material here. --David Stubbs

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant black comedy, 22 Jul 2004
By L O'connor (richmond, surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: M*A*S*H [1970] [DVD] (DVD)
If you are only familiar with the TV version of M.A.S.H., you will find the film very different but very funny. Donald Sutherland (Hawkeye) and Elliott Gould (Trapper)are both brilliant as the crazy surgeons trying to keep sane amidst the chaos of war. The humour of the film is much blacker than the Tv series, of the movie cast only Gary Burghoff (Radar O'Reilly) went on to star in the TV version. These days I find I prefer Donald Sutherland's Hawkeye, Alan Alda's relentless niceness gets on my nerves a bit. In the movie (as in the original novel) there are two other surgeons joining in Hawkeye and Trapper's antics, Duke Forrest and Spearchucker Jones (you may recall there was a halfhearted attempt to include Spearchucker in the first TV series, but he soon faded from view). I love the bit where Duke, a Southerner, is told he's going to be sharing accomodation with a black surgeon, and says plaintively "Oh no, it's bad enough having to share with you two Yankees!" Uptight army nurse Margaret Houlihan is subjected to rougher treatment than in the TV series, as for instance when her all is exposed when the doctors make the shower collapse while she's using it in order to settle a bet over whether she's a natural blonde or not. Then there's the climatic football match where some very dirty tactics are brought into play to make sure the M.A.S.H. team win. The movie is darker, dirtier, and in some ways funnier than the TV version.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "The early morning fog I see", 15 April 2002
There is a general law that says books are normally better than the films, though there are some exceptions. That is why i had my doubts before i saw this film, boy was i wrong. Though the book by Richard Hooker is brilliant i think the film is better! Robert Altman did a great job and Sutherlands and Gualds performances are sheer class.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars War - what is it good for?, 19 Mar 2004
By Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: M*A*S*H [1970] [DVD] (DVD)
I usually confine my comments to the standard of the film, but in this case the quality of restoration deserves a mention, as do the extras provided on the DVD. Unusually, these are well worth having and add to the enjoyment of the main feature.

M.A.S.H. is probably best known nowadays for having spawned the classic TV sitcom starring Alan Alda but more an ensemble creation of well-loved characters. A number of these appear in the original film, though it was originally intended as a star vehicle for Messrs. Sutherland and Gould. Where the TV series took much longer to explore the nuances of relationship and unpeel the subtle layers of about war, the film uses the limitations of a 2-hour format to create a dark satire with the essential underpinning of serious compassion and empathy, gloss over some aspects of characterisation and stays lightweight to retain its audience. That said, there is more gore and therefore sense of realism about the big screen version, even if it wimps out of a more direct condemnation of war.

Robert Altman's evolving neo-fly-on-the-wall style will be familiar to anyone watching his later films such as the Player and Nashville. And it works - the comic results are a joy to behold, and stand the test of time remarkably well through the endless topicality of war - consider what the Trapper and Hawkeye of today would feel about the Iraq war from their mobile army surgical hospital in Basra!

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5.0 out of 5 stars M*A*S*H
Such fun.The film brought back great memories- The humour is wonderful but you still get the poignance of its message. This film will never grow old.
Published 5 days ago by Elaine J. Pearce

5.0 out of 5 stars Racist and sexist but still funny


I hadn't seen it for a long time so I was interested to see if it was still as funny. I remember first watching it is France in french in about 1971... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Peter Wade

1.0 out of 5 stars If this is hilarious then I must have lost my humour chip
After reading the reviews and watching the trailer to this film I decided that it was worth picking up, I could only watch the first 62 minutes. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Dazman

4.0 out of 5 stars Mash stands the test of time
This film came out around the year I got married 1970 and after all the years still is fantastic to watch and enjoy just like my wife. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mr. G. Lewis

5.0 out of 5 stars Timeless
It was wonderful seeing this film again after 37 years; a break from the mindless tedium of gratuitous blood and violence, brain-splitting noise, and endless shots of the poor... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Roger Gay

5.0 out of 5 stars D*A*R*K
M*A*S*H is Robert Altmans crowning glory. A film about a Medical Camp during the Korean war and how the team of medics and nurses cope with thier work. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2004 by mcc27

5.0 out of 5 stars Black Comdey
Excellent feature length of MASH which preceded the long running TV series. Deals with the Korean War in a much more dark manner than could hae been done in a TV series but you... Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2004 by Chris Aslett

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely funny and a unique perpective of the Korean War
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!! very witty. An absolute corker. Donald Sutherland and Co. provide a very entertaining and unique view of the war. Read more
Published on 17 April 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars IAN
This is a very funny film. It effortlessly mixes comedy with the serious issues of war and death.Donald Sutherland is superb.
Published on 29 Jan 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Biting balck comedy anti- war satire from Robert Altman.
M.A.S.H is one of those films that rewards multiple viewings. Firstly, because of the overlapping, quickfire dialogue. Read more
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