Mash - Selections Edition (VHS)

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Mash - Selections Edition

The film that inspired the Emmy Award winning television series.

• Rated: PG
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 116 minutes
• Format: Color
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English

When a wounded soldier is clumsily dropped off a stretcher onto the ground in the title sequence, it was actually an accident caused by an actor who tripped. A perfect illustration of the film’s black humor, Robert Altman decided to use it with the song “Suicide Is Painless” sung in the background.

This classic American war comedy received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and spawned one of the most popular shows ever to run on television. It focuses on three army surgeons (Donald Sutherland, Elliot Gould and Tom Skerritt) who develop a lunatic lifestyle in order to handle the everyday horrors they encounter in the Korean War. Sally Kellerman, Gary Burghoff and Robert Duvall co-star in this disarming mix of slapstick, merciless fun and tragedy.

1970 Twentieth Century Fox