The Art Of Casting - M*A*S*H (1970)

M-A-S-H - (Original Trailer)

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor to keep their sanity during wartime in Robert Altman's breakthrough movie M-A-S-H (1970).

M*A*S*H (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Suicide Is Painless

The opening from Robert Altman, including the rarely-heard lyric from the song, which became the TV title theme, which made writer Mike Altman (the director’s son) rich, and a brief introduction of Colonel Blake (Roger Bowen) and Radar (Gary Burghoff), from M*A*S*H, 1970,

M*A*S*H (1970) -- (Movie Clip) You Killed Him

The original condition of the patient is not altogether clear, but Major Burns (Robert Duvall) cruelly blames Boone (Bud Cort) for his death, causing Trapper (Elliott Gould) to retaliate, just as Col. Blake (Roger Bowen) is orienting Major Houlihan (Sally Kellerman), in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, 1970.

M*A*S*H (1970) -- (Movie Clip) Scratch My Nose

Radar (Gary Burghoff) conducts new Korean War surgeons Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) and Duke (Tom Skerritt) to their tent, meeting colleague Frank Burns (Robert Duvall) and local Ho-Jon (Kim Atwood), before director Robert Altman’s first operating room scene, in M*A*S*H, 1970.

M*A*S*H (1970) -- (Movie Clip) It Worked For Hitler And Eva Braun

Trapper (Elliott Gould) and Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) et al discuss dentist Waldowski (John Schuck), who’s contemplating suicide because he thinks he’s a latent homosexual, improvising a counter-measure in which Father Mulcahy (Rene Auberjonois) is reluctant to assist, in M*A*S*H, 1970.

M*A*S*H (1970) -- (Movie Clip) He Was Drafted

New head nurse Major Houlihan (Sally Kellerman), who has allied herself with the martinet Major Burns, confronts unorthodox surgeon Hawkeye (Donald Sutherland) in the mess tent, Rene Auberjonois commenting, in director Robert Altman’s counter-culture Korean War comedy M*A*S*H, 1970.

M*A*S*H (1970) -- (Movie Clip) And Then There Was Korea

Immediately after the opening, a graphic citing General MacArthur and the introduction of Donald Sutherland as Hawkeye, encountering a testy sergeant (Jerry Jones) then meeting his fellow new surgeon Duke (Tom Skerritt), from director Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, 1970.