Years before it was a long-running sitcom, Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H broke ground as a funny satire set during the Korean War that skewered the conventional attitudes of the political mainstream during the Vietnam War era.
Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould star as the iconic “Hawkeye” Pierce and “Duke” Forrest, two insubordinate army surgeons who cause a lot of grief at a surgical camp in South Korea.
M*A*S*H set a standard for the following decade of politically minded films, which often used counter-culture themes to poke fun at the establishment, while, naturally, making a lot of money for the establishment.
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