Black comedy, set in a mobile hospital unit, a few miles from the never-seen front, during the Korean War. The young doctors and nurses live, love and joke among the mangled, bloody bodies they patch, stitch, saw and otherwise operate.


Books with substantial mentioning of MASH

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Kathryn Bernheimer
The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking
Secaucus, NJ, 1999

Peter van Gelder
Offscreen Onscreen, The inside stories of 60 great films
London, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990