MASH is a 1970 satirical American dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and based on the novel A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S*H franchise.The film depicts an outfit of medical personnel stationed at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War and stars Donald Sutherland and Elliott Gould with Robert Duvall, Sally Kellerman, Tom Skerritt, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff, Rene Auberjonois, David Arkin and Fred Williamson. The