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Release Date: 1953

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Keenan Wynn, June Allyson

Categories: Movies, War film

Battle Circus is a 1953 film directed by Richard Brooks, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson, and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith. The film is set in Korea during the Korean War. Bogart (in his sole film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 66, with Allyson playing a newly-arrived nurse. The background and linkage scenes often feature actual Korean War footage. According to Brooks (in an interview filmed for the 1988 Bacall on Bogart documentary), the film was originally called MASH, a title... MORE

Battle Circus is a 1953 film directed by Richard Brooks, who also wrote the screenplay. It stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson, and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith. The film is set in Korea during the Korean War. Bogart (in his sole film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 66, with Allyson playing a newly-arrived nurse. The background and linkage scenes often feature actual Korean War footage. According to Brooks (in an interview filmed for the 1988 Bacall on Bogart documentary), the film was originally called MASH, a title rejected by MGM because the studio thought people would think the film had something to do with potatoes. Brooks also noted that Bogart agreed to do the film because the script's humor, set in a story showing the tragedy of war, would make the film seem more realistic to an audience. This half-century old film is of particular interest today for several reasons: 1) predates by a decade (and may have influenced/inspired) Robert Altman's film M*A*S*H and the subsequent TV series. 2) numerous scenes show actual Korean War footage, and 3)shows how the relationship between the sexes in the military LESS