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The film inspired the television series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983. Gary Burghoff, who played Radar O'Reilly, was the only actor playing a major character who appeared in both the movie and the TV series. Altman despised the TV series, calling it "the antithesis of what we were trying to do" with the movie. [5] Plot [ edit ] Although a number of sources have reported that Lardner was upset with the liberties taken with his script, In a rave review, John Mahoney of The Hollywood Reporter called the film "the finest American comedy since Some Like It Hot", and "the Mister Roberts of the Korean War", as well as " The Graduate of 1970". [31] Time magazine, in a review titled " Catch-22 Caliber", wrote of the film, "though it wears a dozen manic, libidinous masks, none quite covers the face of dread ... M.A.S.H., one of America's funniest bloody films, is also one of its bloodiest funny films." [32] The New Yorker critic Pauline Kael wrote of the film, "I don't know when I’ve had such a good time at a movie. Many of the best recent American movies leave you feeling that there's nothing to do but get stoned and die, that that's your proper fate as an American. This movie heals a breach." [33] John Simon described M*A*S*H as an 'amusingly absurdist army satire'. [34] The Movie that Spoke the Truth to War". The Attic. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020 . Retrieved 3 March 2020.In 1951, the 4077th Mobile Army 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, mischievous rule-breakers, but they soon prove to be excellent combat surgeons. Other characters already stationed at the camp include the bumbling commanding officer Henry Blake, his hyper-competent chief clerk Radar O'Reilly, dentist Walter "Painless Pole" Waldowski, the incompetent and pompous surgeon Frank Burns, and the contemplative Chaplain Father Mulcahy. AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs" (PDF). American Film Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2013-03-16 . Retrieved 2016-07-17. The Steve Mcqueen Collection - Tom Horn / Towering Inferno / Bullitt / The Cinncinatti / Never So Few

The khaki-colored cloth box is a great idea, but the DVDs are wedged into a cardboard holder like coins in a coin set. The DVD was slightly scratched the minute I pulled it out of its holder. So, at that point, I wasted no time in getting a separate CD/DVD case for each of them. You'll have to carefully pull out every disc and re-insert them into your new carrying case to keep them safe and sound. The box will be stored somewhere for safekeeping as well. And while I enjoyed David Ogden Stiers as the stuffy, haughty, brilliant Major Charles Emerson Winchester, he was no substitute for Larry Linville's hilariously twisted Major Frank Burns. Following the departure of Stevenson and Rogers at the start of the fourth season, Linville had two more years of playing Burns, and his marvelously psychotic portrayal helped keep the original tone of the show during those transition years. Unfortunately, he wasn't given a farewell episode, either, with his last, desperate acts in Tokyo to find his paramour Margaret, only relayed to the audience via telephone. It was another makeshift, disrespectful ending for a beloved character. Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 256.Grammy Award Winners". National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 7 November 2011 . Retrieved 1 May 2011. In 1996, M*A*S*H was deemed "culturally significant" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.