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War Movie Mondays Again: M*A*S*H

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It’s time for another edition of War Movie Mondays Again. This week we’re focusing on acclaimed director Robert Altman’s 1970 anti-war comedy classic M*A*S*H. The movie was adapted by screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. and is based on the hit novel by Richard Hooker. It concerns three military surgeons who are stationed three miles from the front lines during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland (Capt. Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce), Elliott Gould (Capt. John Francis Xavier “Trapper John” McIntyre), and Tom Skerritt (Capt. Augustus Bedford “Duke” Forrest). Rounding out the supporting cast is Robert Duvall (Maj. Frank Burns), Sally Kellerman (Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan), Roger Bowen (Lt. Col. Henry Blake), Rene Auberjonois (Father John Patrick “Dago Red” Mulcahy), and Gary Burghoff as (Cpl. Walter “Radar” O’Reilly), who would later reprise his role in the hit television series which ran from 1972-83. The release of M*A*S*H came at a critical time with America entering a new decade and the unpopular war in Vietnam still raging. M*A*S*H‘s dark humor and side-splitting dialogue is an allegorical look at Korea, yet reflected the country’s attitudes about Vietnam,  which was igniting riots in cities and on college campuses throughout the country.  Robert Altman directs […]

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