However, he’s completely absent from the TV series. The original cast of M*A*S*H ( Archive PL / Alamy Stock Photo)įans of the film will remember Duke Forrest as a major character he’s right there alongside Hawkeye and Trapper John. The TV Series Lost Two Major Movie Characters. Though the film took pains to establish that it was indeed set in Korea, the audience could certainly sense the undercurrents that paralleled the contemporaneous Vietnam War. Ironically, whereas M*A*S*H was a film that looked at the horror of war through the lens of comedy, it lost most of those Oscar nominations to the very serious Patton. It took the Golden Globe in the Musical or Comedy Category, and it was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film earned the Grand Prix du International du Film (now called the Palme d’Or) at Cannes in 1970. The film earned plaudits right out of the gate in addition to being financially successful, it racked up an impressive run of awards. Gary Burghoff played Radar O’Reilly, a role he would reprise in the TV series. The cast included a number of familiar faces, like Elliot Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Robert Duvall, and Sally Kellerman.
adapted the novel into screenplay form, and Robert Altman sat in the director’s chair. The trailer for the film version of M*A*S*H (uploaded to YouTube by Movieclips Classic Trailers) The Movie Struck Gold in More Than One Way. They sold it soon after the book was a hit upon its 1968 publication. Following a round of rejections from publishers, he recruited sportswriter W.C. After the war, Hornberger went into private practice and worked off and on with the material for 11 years. He was assigned to the 8055 Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (which is, of course, what MASH stands for). The original novel by “Richard Hooker” is actually a pseudonym used by Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr., a graduate of Cornell Medical School who served in Korea. Here’s the story of how one man’s reflections on Korea became a comedy classic. The film led to the classic TV series, which in turn led to an entire series of novels, two other TV series (in a way), and even a line of action figures. Fifty years ago this week, MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors made the jump to film as the award-winning M*A*S*H.
Of course, that’s not a new practice at all. A single piece of entertainment can blossom into a micro-industry that generates spin-offs and seemingly endless merchandise. In today’s entertainment climate, everyone is familiar with (at least the idea of) the multimedia property.
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