M*A*S*H (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

With the release of Robert Altman's MASH in 1970 a new form of comedy was born one that would help to forever change the face of cinema. Altman's audacious film reflected the American counterculture's growing distrust of religion and government in the late 1960s and early 1970s resulting in one of the biggest box office smashes of its time. Introducing the techniques he would employ throughout his storied career--overlapping dialogue a constantly moving camera with a heavy amount of zooming and a bold combination of frank subject matter with cynical humor--Altman immediately vaulted himself to Hollywood's upper ranks. Based on the novel by Richard Hooker MASH follows a group of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital officers as they perform surgery and pass the time just miles from the front lines of the Korean conflict. Led by sardonic captains "Hawkeye" Pierce Donald Sutherland and "Trapper" John McIntyre Elliott Gould the film has the feel of an absurd three-ring circus. Other characters include the uptight nurse "