Every Thursday night, Orinda Theater in 4 Orinda Theatre Square, Orinda, California offers free classic movies. This coming Thursday, June 9, 2016, Orinda will screen the movie “M*A*S*H.” Movie starts at 7pm, come early as the house gets full quickly. Sometimes, actors and filmmakers do special guest appearances.
“M*A*S*H” is a 1970 American satirical black comedy war film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr., based on Richard Hooker’s novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. It became one of the biggest films of the early 1970s for 20th Century Fox.
The film depicts a unit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War; the subtext is about the Vietnam War. It stars Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould, with Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall, René Auberjonois, Gary Burghoff, Roger Bowen, Michael Murphy and, in his film debut, professional football player Fred Williamson.
The film went on to receive five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay. The film inspired the popular and critically acclaimed television series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983.
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