M-A-S-H
The original adventures of Hawkeye Pierce, Duke Forrest and Trapper John McIntyre in the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Korea put Robert Altman's name - and some of the rudiments of his quirky methods - on the map.
“Because M-A-S-H is wildly, irreverently, scabrously, blasphemously funny, all to the accompaniment of gouts of blood from Korean war-wounded, it has been hailed as the great anti-everything film.... If the Army (or the Establishment)... comes out badly in the film - as it does - it is simply because all authority has been proved conclusively to be useless, irrelevant and even positively damaging....”