"M*A*S*H" Kim (1973)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Director:

William Wiard

Writers:

Larry Gelbart (writer)
Marc Mandel (writer)

TV Series:

"M*A*S*H" (1972)

Original Air Date:

20 October 1973 (Season 2, Episode 6)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | War

Plot:

A wounded Korean boy captures the hearts of the 4077th especially Trapper who wants to adopt him. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Colonel | Doctor | Korean War | Captain

Cast

Alan Alda	...	Captain Benjamin Franklin Pierce
Wayne Rogers	...	Captain John McIntyre
McLean Stevenson	...	Lt. Colonel Henry Blake
Loretta Swit	...	Major Margaret Houlihan
Larry Linville	...	Major Franklin Marion Burns
Gary Burghoff	...	Corporal Walter Eugene O'Reilly
Jamie Farr	...	Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger
William Christopher	...	Father Francis Mulcahy
Lesley Evans	...	Nurse Mitchell
Edgar Miller	...	Kim
Momo Yashima	...	Kim's Mother
Maggie Roswell	...	Sister Theresa

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Photophone Sound Recording)

Company:

20th Century Fox Television

Goofs:

Continuity: At the end, when the group watches the truck containing Kim and his mother pull away off to the left, Margaret and Frank walk away from the group off to the right. The camera moves to the left to follow Trapper as he steps out into the road watching the truck. In the next closeup shot of the group, Margaret and Frank are standing with the group again.

Quotes:

Trapper: [In letter] At first I thought it was the war, and this stinking place that made me... well... love him, I guess. But now I know it's more than that. The reasons aren't important. We think his parents are dead. Henry Blake wants to send him to an orphanage, and I hate the idea so much, I can't stand it.
Hawkeye: [reading letter] "I want us to adopt him, honey. He'd be the son we never had. I know the girls would be out of their little minds to have a brother. This is a decision we both have to make. Think about it carefully. You know my feelings, now it's really in your hands." That's beautiful.
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