MASH (1970)

Cast

Sylvester Stallone
as Soldier
Donald Sutherland
as Hawkeye Pierce
Robert Duvall
as Maj. Frank Burns
Tom Skerritt
as Duke Forrest

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Genres & Description

Action Comedy Drama War

7.6 / 10

The personnel at the 4077 MASH unit deal with the horrors of the Korean War and the stresses faced in surgery by whatever means. The tone at the MASH is established by recent arrivals, surgeons Captains 'Hawkeye' Pierce, 'Duke' Forrest, and 'Trapper' John McIntyre - the latter who Hawkeye knows he's met somewhere, but Trapper who won't divulge where - whose antics can be best described as non-regulation, and in the negative words of one of their fellow MASH-ers: unmilitary. The unit's commanding officer, Colonel Henry Blake, doesn't care about this behavior as long as it doesn't affect him, and as long as they do their job and do it well, which they do. Their behavior does extremely bother fellow surgeon, Major Frank Burns, and recently arrived head nurse, Major Margaret Houlihan, who obtains the nickname 'Hot Lips' based on information they glean about her through underhanded means. Beyond their battles with Frank and Hot Lips, Hawkeye, Duke and/or Trapper help unit dentist Painless ...

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Comments on this trailer
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Jiten Mehra

Mr Geller??? - @Monday, October 8, 2018 10:23 PM

Joe Marron

Look mother, I wanna get to work in one hour... - @Thursday, September 20, 2018 4:32 AM

Steven Hamburg

Hey I got an idea. Why don’t you do a remake of Mash with Frank Burns and Hot Lips as the hero’s and Hawkeye and Trapper as the villains. Really? Come off it. It was a great movie. - @Saturday, May 5, 2018 3:37 AM

gim10003

Congratulations, Mr. Scott, on working so many buzzwords into your piece like "entitled," "bully" and "spoiled frat boys." It would have been better if you also critiqued the movie's glorification of "white privilege," but you can save that for your review of Lawrence of Arabia. - @Tuesday, October 24, 2017 2:20 PM

mikemoair

I am pro-vajazzle - @Friday, July 14, 2017 1:35 AM

Chris Perkins

Nice touch holding characters from the 50's accountable by today's standards. NY Times...idiots. - @Monday, May 22, 2017 6:44 PM

Chris

just what id expect from a ny times review. pretentious p. c. douchery - @Tuesday, April 4, 2017 5:15 AM

buckfan1969

The irony of this critic's review of a 40+ year old movie is that the movies he's seeing today, in almost every case, suck. He's right that Hawkeye et. all can be dicks at times, but they were representing everyone who was of draft age in 1970 when they made it. And we loved it. One of my all-time favorites still. 10 x better than the tv series, as far as I'm concerned. - @Thursday, February 23, 2017 1:04 AM

michael mixon

Definitely in my top ten!!! - @Friday, September 23, 2016 10:38 PM

Cody Davis

love the movie love the series - @Tuesday, November 4, 2014 2:35 AM

John Post

Sorry. While the movie, and many others of that time, will always be a classic, reviewers will come and go, trying to apply 2013 thinking and standards to something 40 years old, created for the thinking and standards of that time. I think they do it now mostly just to get a paycheck in 2013 and justify their day at the office. I believe it reflects poorly on the Times, an otherwise fine organization. - @Friday, October 18, 2013 4:54 PM

Peter Guilherme

I really love this movie, but of all the scenes to end this video on, you'd think they wouldn't pick the worst one in the whole film... - @Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:09 PM

MrStevemur

MASH was showing the maximum amount of rebelliousness the American system was pre paired to put up with. If you wanted to take it further, they suggest suicide - @Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:47 AM

AdrianCastilloAl

I think that the fact that a system can deal with rebels is not the conclusion of this movie as A.O. Scott suggests. Hawkeye and Trapper John's rule-bending behavior ultimately changes the original, stricter system of the Hospital into a more laissez faire one in which their "enemys" (Hot Lips and Burns) have no more space. Burns is, through a trick, excluded from MASH and Hot Lips has to endure the humiliations "in order to survive". In my opinion MASH rather workes out the hazards of anarchy. - @Thursday, October 6, 2011 1:46 AM

Vameon

One of my favorites - @Thursday, August 18, 2011 4:07 PM