Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Film #77: Catch-22
Joseph Heller's now-classic 1961 novel was rejected by publishers 15 times. It started out as Catch-14, then Catch-11, Catch-17, and finally, upon publication, Catch-22. In the novel, Yossarian is a nervous WWII pilot who's fed up with risking his life and, by feigning insanity, wants to get drummed out of the force. In Buck Henry's college-try adaptation of this impossible-to-film novel (or
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Alan Arkin,
Art Garfunkel,
Buck Henry,
Catch-22,
comedy,
Mike Nichols,
Orson Welles,
war
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