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Directed by Robert Altman.
The feature that made Robert Altman's name was a master-stroke, introducing numerous artistic effects and flourishes (multi-layered soundtracks and a searching use of zoom lenses) that became the director's unique signature. Depicting a mobile army surgical unit in Korea, and detailing the off-hours hijinks of its surgical staff, M*A*S*H offered a portriat of America's war project observed from a radically ambivalent emotional remove, revising the American war film as devoid of its usual, sentimental underpinnings.
Aspen Productions and Ingo Productions/20th Century Fox. Producer: Ingo Preminger. Screenwriter: Ring Lardner Jr., based on the novel by Richard Hooker. Cinematographer: Harold E. Stine. Editor: Danford B. Greene. Cast: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, Corey Fischer.
35mm, color, 116 min.
