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Writers:
Allen Rivkin (story) and
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Release Date:
6 March 1953 (USA) more
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M-G-M's great drama of desire under fire!
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Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast

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Humphrey Bogart ... Maj. Jed Webbe

June Allyson ... Lt. Ruth McGara
Keenan Wynn ... Sgt. Orvil Statt
Robert Keith ... Lt. Col. Hilary Walters
William Campbell ... Capt. John Rustford
Perry Sheehan ... Lt. Laurence

Patricia Tiernan ... Lt. Rose Ashland
Adele Longmire ... Lt. Jane Franklin
Jonathan Cott ... Adjutant
Ann Morrison ... Lt. Edith Edwards
Helen Winston ... Lt. Graciano
Sarah Selby ... Capt. Dobbs
Danny Chang ... Korean child
Philip Ahn ... Korean prisoner
Steve Forrest ... Sergeant
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
MASH 66 (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
90 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Fun Stuff

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Humphrey Bogart accidentally set his left thumb afire with lighter fluid while filming the scene in which his character burns some documents. The accident is visible in the film. more
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Revealing mistakes: The aircraft strafing the hospital at the beginning of the movie have USAF markings. more
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Featured in Bacall on Bogart (1988) (TV) more

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Pallid war movie, 1 March 2004
5/10
Author: funkyfry from Oakland CA

A MASH unit is the source of this drama's minimal story and, well, drama. Allyson is her usual one note self, Bogart is present in body but perhaps not in spirit.... it really feels like everyone just walked through this one. That said, this one passes the time all right, but could never qualify for classic.

A bit more script attention, or interest, would have helped, I suppose. This feels like a movie that was made simply to have been made, as if "well, we gotta make war movies, and we gotta put Bogey in some movies, so let's put Bogie in this war movie." Not much to look at here, but not much to be bothered or offended by either. Bogey and Allyson are not convincing as a pair.

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