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216 M*A*S*HTwentieth Century-Fox, 1970PRINCIPAL CAST Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally KellermanDIRECTORRobert AltmanPRODUCERIngo PremingerSCREENWRITER Ring Lardner, Jr.Altman’s episodic antiwar film about a mobile medical unit during the Korean Wargave American audiences a reason to laugh at the height of Vietnam. The overlappingdialogue and irreverent story thumbed its nose at all things political and pushed theboundaries of filmmaking.217 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSRKO, 1942PRINCIPAL CAST Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter,Agnes MooreheadDIRECTOROrson WellesPRODUCEROrson WellesSCREENWRITER Orson WellesWelles’ masterful use of sound and cinematography highlight this penetratingadaptation of Booth Tarkington’s study of the disintegration of a turn-of-the-20thcentury family under the thumb of its spoiled, petulant heir.218 THE MALTESE FALCONWarner Bros., 1941PRINCIPAL CAST Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet,Peter LorreDIRECTORJohn HustonPRODUCERSHal B. Wallis, Henry BlankeSCREENWRITER John HustonBogart’s Sam Spade is the detective whose partner is murdered. The cops are afterhim and he’s after the woman who hired his partner, which leads them to Greenstreetand Lorre, who are all after a priceless statuette. Bogart suggested the take onShakespeare: “The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.”219 A MAN FOR ALL SEASONSColumbia, 1966PRINCIPAL CAST Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Orson WellesDIRECTORFred ZinnemannPRODUCERFred ZinnemannSCREENWRITER Robert BoltScofield is Sir Thomas More, who resists Shaw’s Henry VIII when he requests helpto break away from the Roman Catholic Church to form the Church of England.American Film Institute 73