This is a 25-minute short film featuring Emmy Award winner Gary Burghoff, who reprises his Walter character for this little mix of comedy and drama. Yes I think there are certainly enough dramatic aspects in here to categorize it as such, which is also why I must say that the laugh tracks were really annoying and irritating, especially as none of the comedy in here was truly laugh-out-loud funny and I personally felt it delivered more from the dramatic perspective. I also guess that is what the makers had in mind as the movie ends with a moral question on whether to arrest a young man or not. With "makers" I am also referring to people who made M*A*S*H as some of these also worked on this pilot episode. However, it did not get picked up despite coming out immediately after the end of the very successful and lung-running series I just mentioned. And I am not really mad about it. I have never seen M*A*S*H, but judging from this short film here I have no interest in watching it, let alone a series that follows this short film. Burghoff is fine, but the rest of the cast is not really good. Not recommended.
Review of W*A*L*T*E*R
