![]() Ring Lardner won the film’s only Oscar for his screenplay, despite having complained that not a word of it was filmed. The film’s ‘structure’, essentially splitting neatly into four episodes, pointed to the way to future television success – which Altman refused to have anything to do with. Fox were horrified when the finished product was delivered, but cheered up when it was a hit. Hence he got away with the anarchic, loosely plotted, much improvised, barely organised counter-culture shambles that we now know and love. ![]() Based on a successful novel, it was a big-ish deal, but with the suits at Fox more concerned with two other war films shooting at the same time – Patton and the exceptionally troubled Tora! Tora! Tora! – what Altman was doing went largely under the studio radar. MASH wasn’t Robert Altman’s first film, but it was arguably the first one anyone noticed. Jerry Lewis, Rowan Atkinson), this has never been bettered, a perfect comedy meandering along despite the lack of anything resembling a real plot. ![]() Hulot innocently causing havoc and misery to all around him as he enjoys a welcome break at the seaside. Perhaps that's because it's a classic, with Jacques Tati's beautifully drawn M. An almost silent film made in the 1950s, a pure slapstick farce with a blithely oblivious central buffoon, this film must have seemed anachronistic even before the prints were developed.
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