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A scabrous black comedy about the Korean War that was understood by all to be about the tragedy of Vietnam, this is the movie that put the former TV director on the map -- he was the producers' 16th choice. It's a harder, tougher piece of work than the beloved small-screen series that followed. From left, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, and Donald Sutherland. (Photo by Photofest/Museum of the Moving Image)
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M*A*S*H* (1970)
A scabrous black comedy about the Korean War that was understood by all to be about the tragedy of Vietnam, this is the movie that put the former TV director on the map -- he was the producers' 16th choice. It's a harder, tougher piece of work than the beloved small-screen series that followed. From left, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, and Donald Sutherland.

(Photo by Photofest/Museum of the Moving Image)
(Text by Ty Burr, Globe Staff)
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