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Description of this Mash Poster
M*A*S*H (stylized onscreen as MASH) is a 1970 American black war comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968) by Richard Hooker. The film is the only feature-length film in the M*A*S*H franchise to be released theatrically, and it became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century Fox.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy, and, in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson. Although the Korean War is the setting for the film’s plot, the subtext is the Vietnam War—a current event at the time the film was made. Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, who saw the film in college, said M*A*S*H was “perfect for its time; the cacophony of American culture was brilliantly captured on screen.”
The film won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, later called the Palme d’Or, at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The film went on to receive five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and won Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1996, M*A*S*H was included in the annual selection of 25 films added to the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry, deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and recommended for preservation. The Academy Film Archive preserved M*A*S*H in 2000.
The film inspired the television series M*A*S*H, which aired from 1972 to 1983. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O’Reilly, was the only actor playing a major character to appear in both the film and the television series. Altman despised the television series, calling it “the antithesis of what we were trying to do” with the film.
In 1951, the Army’s 4077th Mobile Surgical Hospital in South Korea is assigned two new surgeons, “Hawkeye” Pierce and “Duke” Forrest, who arrive in a stolen Army Jeep. They are insubordinate, womanizing, and disregard the rules, but they quickly prove themselves to be excellent combat surgeons. Other characters already stationed at the camp include the bumbling commandant Henry Blake, his hyper-competent chief clerk Radar O’Reilly, the dentist Walter “Painless Pole” Waldowski, the incompetent and pompous surgeon Frank Burns, and the contemplative chaplain Father Mulcahy.
The camp’s main characters split into two factions. Angered by Frank’s religious fervor, Hawkeye and Duke convince Blake to change tents so that newly arrived thoracic surgeon Trapper John McIntyre can move in. The three doctors (the “Swampmen,” after their tent) have little respect for military protocol, having been drafted into the army, and are prone to pranks, womanizing, and heavy drinking. Frank is a strict military officer who wants everything done efficiently and by the book, as is Margaret Houlihan, who has been assigned to the 4077th as head nurse. The two bond over their adherence to regulations and begin a secret romance. With Radar’s help, the Swampmen sneak a microphone into a tent where the couple are making love and broadcast their passion over the camp’s PA system, embarrassing them and earning Houlihan the nickname “Hot Lips.” The next morning, Hawkeye tricks Frank into assaulting her, resulting in his removal from the camp for a psychiatric evaluation. Later, while Hot Lips is showering, the Swampmen play a prank on her by pulling back the tent panels and exposing her naked body, in order to settle a bet on whether or not she is a natural blonde. Furious and embarrassed, Hot Lips yells at Blake to let his staff run wild and not discipline him.
Indolore, described as “the best-equipped dentist in the army” and “Detroit’s dental Don Juan,” becomes depressed following an incident of impotence and announces his intention to commit suicide, believing he has become homosexual. The Swampmen agree to help him carry out the act, hosting a feast reminiscent of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, arranging for Father Mulcahy to give Indolore absolution and communion, and providing him with a “black capsule” (actually a sleeping pill) to help him carry out the act. Hawkeye persuades the handsome Lieutenant “Dish” Schneider—who has remained faithful to her husband and is being transferred to the United States for release—to spend the night with Dolore and allay her concerns about his “latent homosexuality.” The next morning, Dolore is back to her usual cheerful mood, and a smiling Dish leaves the camp aboard a helicopter to begin her journey home. Trapper and Hawkeye are sent to Japan on temporary assignment to operate on a congressman’s son and, hopefully, play some golf. When they subsequently perform an unauthorized operation on a local infant, they are disciplined by the hospital commander for misusing Army resources. Trapper uses anesthetic gas to put the commander to sleep. Using staged photos of him waking up in bed with a prostitute, they blackmail him into silence.
After returning to camp, Blake and General Hammond organize a football game between the 4077th and the 325th Evacuation Hospital and bet several thousand dollars on its outcome. At Hawkeye’s suggestion, Blake requests that a particular neurosurgeon—Dr. Oliver Harmon “Spearchucker” Jones, a former professional football player for the San Francisco 49ers—be transferred to the 4077th as a teammate. Hawkeye also suggests that Blake bet half his money upfront and keep Jones out of the first half of the game. The 325th scores easily and repeatedly, even after the 4077th drugs one of its star players to render him unfit to play. Hammond confidently offers high odds, against which Blake bets the rest of his money. Jones begins the second half, which quickly turns into a free-for-all, and the 4077th manages to get the 325th’s second player ejected before winning with a final sleight of hand.
Shortly after the game, Hawkeye and Duke receive their discharge orders and begin to return home, borrowing the stolen Jeep they arrived in.