ComedyDramaWar

M*A*S*H

- M*A*S*H Gives A D*A*M*N.

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

Release Date : 1970-02-18

Language :EnglishJapaneseKorean

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Ingo Preminger Productions20th Century FoxAspen Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : M-A-S-HMASH

Cast

Character Name : Hawkeye Pierce

Original Name : Donald Sutherland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trapper John McIntyre

Original Name : Elliott Gould

Gender : Male

Character Name : Duke Forrest

Original Name : Tom Skerritt

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan

Original Name : Sally Kellerman

Gender : Female

Character Name : Maj. Frank Burns

Original Name : Robert Duvall

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lt. Col. Henry Blake

Original Name : Roger Bowen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Father John Mulcahy

Original Name : René Auberjonois

Gender : Male

Character Name : St. Major Wade Vollmer

Original Name : David Arkin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lt. 'Dish' Schneider

Original Name : Jo Ann Pflug

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cpl. 'Radar' O'Reilly

Original Name : Gary Burghoff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Oliver 'Spearchucker' Jones

Original Name : Fred Williamson

Gender : Male

Character Name : 'Me Lai' Marston

Original Name : Michael Murphy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lt. Leslie

Original Name : Indus Arthur

Gender : Female

Character Name : PFC. Seidman

Original Name : Ken Prymus

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Gorman

Original Name : Bobby Troup

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ho-Jon

Original Name : Kim Atwood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cpl. Judson

Original Name : Timothy Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. 'Painless' Waldowski

Original Name : John Schuck

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Storch

Original Name : Dawne Damon

Gender : Male

Character Name : 'Ugly John'

Original Name : Carl Gottlieb

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. 'Knocko'

Original Name : Tamara Wilcox-Smith

Gender : Female

Character Name : Brig. Gen. Charles Hammond

Original Name : G. Wood

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pvt. Warren Boone

Original Name : Bud Cort

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Murrhardt

Original Name : Danny Goldman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Bandini

Original Name : Corey Fischer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Soldier (uncredited)

Original Name : Sylvester Stallone

Gender : Male

Character Name : Duke's 5-Year-Old Son (uncredited)

Original Name : Stephen Altman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Motor Pool Sergeant (uncredited)

Original Name : Jerry Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Col. Wallace C. Merril (uncredited)

Original Name : James B. Douglas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Gerry Okuneff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Capt. Peterson - Nurse Corps (uncredited)

Original Name : Cathleen Cordell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Football Player #88 - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Ben Davidson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Amsler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Stanford Blum

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Craig Chudy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Jack Concannon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Michael Consoldane

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ad Lib Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Ray Didsbury

Gender : Male

Character Name : Corporal (uncredited)

Original Name : Tom Falk

Gender : Male

Character Name : Japanese Golf Pro (uncredited)

Original Name : John Fujioka

Gender : Male

Character Name : Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Lynn Grate

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ward Nurse (uncredited)

Original Name : Joanne Hahn

Gender : Female

Character Name : Japanese Nurse (uncredited)

Original Name : Sumi Haru

Gender : Male

Character Name : Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)

Original Name : Buck Holland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Japanese Caddie (uncredited)

Original Name : Susan Ikeda

Gender : Male

Character Name : Korean Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Dale Ishimoto

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Joe Kapp

Gender : Male

Character Name : Korean Doctor (uncredited)

Original Name : Weaver Levy

Gender : Male

Character Name : 2nd Lieutenant (uncredited)

Original Name : Harvey Levine

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Sam A. Mides

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pretty W.A.C. Receptionist (uncredited)

Original Name : Monica Peterson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Surgeon #1 (uncredited)

Original Name : David Sachs

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Ron Stein

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Fran Tarkenton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Johnny Unitas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Undetermined Role (uncredited)

Original Name : Greg Walker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Japanese Prostitute (uncredited)

Original Name : Hiroko Watanabe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Don Watters

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player (uncredited)

Original Name : Ron Way

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player #88 - 325th Evac. (uncredited)

Original Name : Ben Davidson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Offstage Dialog (voice) (uncredited)

Original Name : Ted Knight

Gender : Male

Character Name : Football Player - 325th Evac.

Original Name : John Myers

Gender : Male

Reviews

Filipe Manuel Neto

@FilipeManuelNeto

2024-03-16

**Without ever becoming a classic, this is a film that had its own space and time.** There are certain films that, despite being forty or fifty years old, seem to maintain all their relevance and pertinence. These films generally surpass the test of time and continue to win new audiences, generation after generation. On the other hand, there are films that are a portrait of the time in which they were made, and belong to that specific time and need to be understood in the light of that particular moment. The plot unfolds during the Korean War, which occurred shortly after the Second World War and divided two countries that are still at war, although it is a frozen conflict. The action focuses on a mobile medical unit near the front line, where a group of doctors and nurses seek, through humor and sarcasm, to lighten the tense environment and forget the surrounding danger, ignoring and mocking their superiors. As you can see, we cannot understand the film without delving into the mentality of the 70s. At a time when American youth were shouting for peace and against the war in Vietnam, what film would make more sense than a comic parody of the army? Korea had been recent and did not have the almost sacred nature of participation in the Second World War, it was acceptable to play with that and have bearded doctors, 100% hippie style, drunk or semi-drugged, doing antics that, in real circumstances, would lead them to court-martial. If this film had been released just ten years earlier, we would have had something totally different, but this is the decade of Flower Power, of peace and love. Robert Altman provides reasonably effective direction. The recreation of the time, and the environments of the military field, is done with technical care. There was a lot of authentic war material that could be used in the design of sets and costumes, and it is quite likely that some witness told what those mobile health units were like, and what was done there. However, the script lacks unity and cohesion, and resembles a collage of comic or sarcastic episodes without much relationship between them. It was a bad script, and I can't understand how it won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. The type of humor is another additional problem: our sense of humor has changed a lot in just a few decades and our sensitivity does not let jokes in such bad taste escape like those that occasionally happen here, particularly those aimed at female characters. What saves the film ends up being the enormous capacity for improvisation and creativity that the cast used in the project. With less than competent screenwriters and insufficient material to build characters, the director seems to have had the intelligence to give the actors enough margin to fill in the gaps, molding the characters in their own way. This is what Donald Sutherland did, ensuring a very strong and charismatic lead. It's not even close to the actor's best, but he managed to pull it off with flying colors. Elliott Gould and Tom Skerritt follow him closely, and form a consistent core cast, with characters good enough to sustain the action. Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman and Roger Bowen provide indispensable support. At the time, the film was a success, as expected, and even led to a TV series. And today? Almost no one remembers anything, and to say that this is a classic seems to be a huge exaggeration. At that time, the film had a guaranteed audience. Today, with world peace declining at the expense of growing conflict between the USA, Iran, China, Russia and other powers, we can no longer call for peace without calling for the rearmament of our countries and their allies. At a time when we already live in a “pre-world war” environment, a film that ridicules the army has no room to flourish.