M*A*S*H

Director: Robert Altman

Overview

"This single-disc edition of Robert Altman's M*A*S*H is a pared-down version of the two-disc set that is also still available. The film is presented in a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves Altman's original aspect ratio. This is a film that rea

Product Details

Release Date:	09/07/2004
UPC:	0024543133452
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	R
Source:	20TH CENT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Letterbox]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono, THX-Supervised Mastering, Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:56:00
Sales rank:	4,597

Special Features

Closed Caption;Commentary by director Robert Altman; AMC backstory: "M*A*S*H"; Still gallery; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Donald Sutherland	Hawkeye Pierce
Elliott Gould	Trapper John
Sally Kellerman	Hot Lips Houlihan
Robert Duvall	Maj. Frank Burns
Tom Skerritt	Duke Forrest
Jo Ann Pflug	Lt. Hot Dish
Rene Auberjonois	Father John Patrick "Dago Red "Mulcahy
Roger Bowen	Col. Henry Blake
Gary Burghoff	Radar O'Reilly
David Arkin	Sgt. Major Vollmer
Fred Williamson	Spearchucker Jones
Michael Murphy	Capt. 'Me Lai' Marston
Kim Atwood	Ho-Jon
Tim Brown	Cpl. Judson,Football Player
Indus Arthur	Lt. Leslie
John Schuck	Painless Pole
Ken Prymus	Pfc. Seidman
Dwayne Damon	Capt. Scorch
Carl Gottlieb	Ugly John
Tamara Horrocks	Capt. Knocko
G. Wood	Gen. Hammond
Bobby Troup	Sgt. Gorman
Bud Cort	Pvt. Lorenzo Boone
Danny Goldman	Capt. Murrhardt
Corey Fischer	Capt. Bandini,Capt. Bandini
J.B. Douglas	Col. Douglas
Yoko Young	Japanese Servant
Ben Davidson	Football Player
Fran Tarkenton	Football Player
Howard Williams	Football Player
Jack Concannon	Football Player
John Myers	Football Player
Tom Woodeschick	Football Player
Buck Buchanan	Football Player
Nolan Smith	Football Player
Monica Peterson	Pretty WAC
Cathleen Cordell	Nurse Corps Captain
Sumi Haru	Japanese Nurse
Susan Ikeda	Japanese Caddy
Masami Saito	Japanese Caddy
John Mamo	Japanese Golf Pro
Samantha Scott	Nurse/Pin-up Model
Tom Falk	Corporal
Harvey Levine	2nd Lieutenant
Dianne Turley	Correspondent
Weaver Levy	Korean Doctor
Dale Ishimoto	Korean Doctor
Jerry Jones	Motor Pool Sergeant
Stephen Altman	Hawkeye's 5-Year-Old Son
Hiroko Watanabe	Korean Prostitute
Ted Knight	Radio Announcer (uncredited)
Marvin Miller	Offstage Dialog
Lloyd Nelson	Actor
Johnny Mandel	Composer

Technical Credits

Ring Lardner Jr.

Ring Lardner

L.B. Abbott	Special Effects
Art Cruickshank	Special Effects
Ingo Preminger	Producer
Ring Lardner Jr.	Screenwriter
Bernard Freericks	Sound/Sound Designer
Ring Lardner	Screenwriter

Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Main Titles [:13]
2. Then There Was... Korea [2:50]
3. The Captain's Jeep [2:02]
4. The New Cutters [2:02]
5. Major Burns [3:50]
6. Meatball Surgery [2:01]
7. Onward, Christian Soldiers [1:24]
8. The Chest Cutter [4:03]
9. Meet Trapper John [:59]
10. Trapper's TKO [3:37]
11. A Regular Army Clown [:56]
12. Hail to the Chief [:46]
13. A Good Team [:59]
14. The Big Broadcast [1:59]
15. Hello, Hot Lips [4:11]
16. Burns Goes Berserk [1:35]
17. Walt's Problem [3:19]
18. Suicide Is Painless [1:05]
19. The Last Supper [3:02]
20. An Act of Mercy [4:24]
21. The Blood Donor [1:59]
22. A Real Blonde [1:36]
23. Going to Town [2:04]
24. Drafted [4:29]
25. A Special Assignment [1:26]
26. The Pros From Dover [:46]
27. "Me Lay" Marston [5:05]
28. Waiting for the Colonel [3:48]
29. Fixing the Fistula [1:00]
30. Back to Korea [1:24]
31. Duke & Hot Lips [5:18]
32. The General's Proposition [1:24]
33. Football Practice [1:23]
34. The Big Game [2:29]
35. Pressing the Bets [2:31]
36. The Ringer [1:54]
37. Number 88's Sister [:12]
38. The Winning Play [1:51]
39. Going Home [2:25]
40. Tonight's Move... [1:21]

Menu

Side #1 --
Play Movie
Language Selection
Languages: English Stereo
Languages: English Mono
Languages: French Mono
Captions & Subtitles: English
Captions & Subtitles: None
Special Features
Commentary By Robert Altman
Backstory: Mash
Theatrical Trailer
Still Gallery
THX
Chapter Selection
Officers Mess
Showers
Swamp
Officers Club
Operating Theater

Editorial Reviews

Robert Altman's commercial breakthrough after more than 20 years of industrial films and TV work felt like an joyous shout of liberation, not just for its director but for the film industry in general. MASH was proudly, gleefully, gloriously rude as few previous Hollywood films had dared to be, not just in using four-letter words but also in a hilariously casual disrespect for religion, the military, American foreign policy, and authority as a whole. While more than a few war movies had centered on men who served despite personal misgivings, MASH put us in the middle of an Army field hospital in the Korean War, where draftee doctors openly decry the "regular Army clowns" as they try to patch up the butchered bodies of soldiers from both sides. The cynical disrespect and mordant wit of Hawkeye Pierce (Donald Sutherland) and Trapper John McIntyre (Elliott Gould) was a breath of enjoyably foul air, especially at a time when America was knee-deep in the ongoing Vietnam War, the obvious analogue of the movie's Korean conflict. Also, the film's willingness to set its cheerfully vulgar humor (often involving sex and nudity) against the bloody horrors of surgery and the unpleasant realities of war was both brave and appropriate; it gave the film a moral balance that allowed the comic and tragic elements to temper each other. If MASH seems more controlled than much of Altman's later work, his trademark free-floating, catch-things-on-the-sly ambience is very much in evidence, as if he'd been wanting to make this sort of film his whole life and wasn't going to blow his chance. He didn't. Also, if you know MASH as a TV series and not as a film, prepare yourself for a shock; there is nothing warm and fuzzy about this movie, which makes its bitter humor all the more effective.