This blood-soaked black comedy gave new dimension to the word irreverence, and has perhaps been undeservedly eclipsed in memory by the outstanding TV series that stemmed from it. The film boosted several star careers, including those of Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland, while Robert Altman's direction of their capers as surgeons in an ill-equipped mobile army service hospital (thus the title) in Korea brings home with full force the desperation behind the humour. The football match at the end is the funniest of its kind since the one enjoyed by the Marx Brothers in Horse Feathers. Screenwriter Ring Lardner Jnr won an Academy Award.

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