Battle Circus ( MASH 66 )

Battle Circus (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: MASH 66
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1953 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Richard Brooks

Written By:
Allen Rivkin
Laura Kerr

Actors:
Humphrey Bogart ..... Maj. Jed Webbe
June Allyson ..... Lt. Ruth McGara
Keenan Wynn ..... Sgt. Orvil Statt
Robert Keith ..... Lt. Col. Hilary Walters
William Campbell ..... Capt. John 'Rusty' Rustford
Perry Sheehan ..... Lt. Laurence
Patricia Tiernan ..... Lt. Rose Ashland
Adele Longmire ..... Lt. Jane Franklin
Jonathan Cott ..... Adjutant
Ann Morrison ..... Lt. Edith Edwards
Helen Winston ..... Lt. Graciano
Sarah Selby ..... Capt. Dobbs
Danny Chang ..... Korean Child
Philip Ahn ..... Korean Prisoner
Steve Forrest ..... Sergeant

Synopsis:

In his only MGM film, Humphrey Bogart plays the commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War. Bogart runs his operation by the book, though he can take time out now and again for compassion. When nurse June Allyson shows up, Bogie is irritated by her foolhardiness and misplaced idealism. Need we tell you that the two "opposites" eventually fall in love? Keenan Wynn steals the show as the camp's wheeler-dealer, a sort of ancestor for such future insouciant M*A*S*H characters as Hawkeye, Trapper John and B.J. Hunnicutt. According to Hollywood scuttlebutt, Humphrey Bogart liked writer/director Richard Brooks because he could walk all over him. Brooks doesn't appear too servile in his disciplined handling of the film, though one can detect a slight lack of enthusiasm on his part.

Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. There she meets and is roughly romanced by Major Jed Webbe, one of the unit's surgeons. Webbe is pushy and seems to care only for momentary pleasures, but McGara falls for him just the same. Their romance blossoms in the midst of overwhelming numbers of casualties, threats from the enemy and from the weather, and emergency evacuations that test the mettle of even a unit whose very name suggests quick mobility.

Story of the Korean war, with true love between an army nurse and an embittered major.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 January, 2012.

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