Maybe Whiskey’s as much a part of our life as war.” But he tapers off after he is threatened with being transferred, if he does not stop drinking. Later on, Ruth disarms a dangerous North Korean soldier with her persuasive words.Īt one point, Bogart typically says: “Three World Wars in one lifetime. When a Korean child needs special care, Ruth asks Jed to perform open-heart operation. When she asks him about his love life, he refuses to answer, and they separate. Ruth is warned by the other nurses of Jed’s womanizing ways. Jed is impressed with the risks Ruth takes, and while courting her, he also cautions that he favors a “no strings” relationship. Jed engages in a helicopter rescue of army casualties while under fire, and Orvil Slatt (Keenan Wynn), a former circus roustabout, is tasked with the constant dismantling and re-pitching of the tent hospital. Lieutenant Ruth McCara initially experiences a distant welcoming by Bogart’s Major Jed Webbe, the unit’s hard-drinking, no-nonsense chief surgeon. Bogart plays a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 8666 (“66” in the dialogue) and Allyson is the newly arrived nurse.ĭespite their initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury.

Korean war hospital movie