Blood and Cuts

Rating: 6/10 (31 August 2016)

It's ironic in the extreme that without this movie we wouldn't have had the TV spin-off that ran for 11 seasons and the TV spin-off is light years ahead of the movie in just about every aspect. As long as we're talking irony how about a touch of nepotism as evidenced by allowing director Altman's young son to contribute an assonance heavy lyric - painless/strangest when they had top composer/lyricist Bobby Troup (Route 66, Baby, All The Time) right there in the cast. Presumably audiences watching this in 1970 before the spin-off had even been mooted would have responded to its off-the-wall-nothing-sacred approach and the literally dozens of unknown actors getting a leg up clearly did no harm at all. A curio rather than a classic.