Catch 22

Mike Nichols' film version of Joseph Heller's celebrated black comedy about US airmen stationed in the Mediterranean during World War II. Paranoid bomber pilot Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is convinced that people are out to kill him - a fair assumption given that he is in the middle of a war. However, when he tries to get himself grounded on psychiatric grounds he comes up against the infamous Catch 22: insanity is a valid reason to be removed from active duty, but as any rational man would attempt to avoid the insanity of war by pretending to be mad, those who report themselves mad therefore prove themselves sane enough to continue. Also starring John Voight as Milo Minderbinder, a profiteer who will sell anything he can get his hands on, including the silk from the men's parachutes, and Bob Newhart as Major Major, an officer who will only allow people into his office to see him when he is not there.

Actor: Alan Arkin
Actor: Richard Benjamin
Actor: Anthony Perkins
Actor: Jon Voight
Actor: Buck Henry
Writer: Buck Henry
Actor: Art Garfunkel
Actor: Bob Newhart
Actor: Orson Welles
Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: John Calley
Producer: Martin Ransohoff
Art/Production/Desgn: Richard Sylbert
Cinematographer: David Watkin
Actor: Martin Sheen
Actor: Martin Balsam
Actor: Paula Prentiss
Actor: Jack Gilford