
Durante la seconda guerra mondiale il capitano dell'aviazione Americana Yossarian, nel timore di perdere la vita in una missione aerea, cerca di farsi passare per pazzo per farsi esonerare, ma non vi riesce. Mentre aspetta che la sua domanda venga accolta, assiste impotente alle tante situazioni assurde che la guerra si porta dietro: inutili massacri, ordini disumani e privi di logica, obbedienza cieca, profitti economici dei guerrafondai. Esasperato e disgustato, Yossarian decide alla fine di fuggire dalla base area nella quale presta servizio, partendo a bordo di un canotto verso il mare aperto.
Bob BalabanCapt. Orr
Capt. Nately (as Arthur Garfunkel)
Austin PendletonLt. Col. Moodus
Elizabeth WilsonMother
Jon Voight1st Lt. Milo MinderbinderGeorge C. Scott turned down the role of Colonel Cathcart, saying he had effectively played the same part in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).
General Dreedle:
Get back in the car, you smirking slut!
Continuity: When 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder explains to Cathcart his plans to trade blankets to the Italians for fresh eggs, he shows Cathcart an egg. As the two walk along the landing strip, the egg disappears from Milo's hand.
Written by Richard Strauss
Conducted by Fritz Reiner
(when Yossarian first sees Luciana)
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