There were two shy, young, company clerk type Privates, with glasses and clipboards, running around in the movie, and getting into trouble, Private Lorenzo Boone and Private Radar O'Reilly; played by Bud Cort and Gary Burghoff, respectively. Boone was actually the bigger role of the two. His key scene is when he is helping Frank Burns, played by Robert Duvall, treat a patient during surgery. Burns makes a mistake and the patient ends up dying. Then Burns turns to the kid and yells at him "See, you killed him!" Boone starts crying; and then Trapper, played by Elliott Gould who has watched this whole thing, beats up Frank. Most people who watch this scene assume it's Radar, (because they look so similar), but it's not, it's Boone. In the movie Radar mostly interacts with Henry, using his ESP to predict what his orders will be; and then repeating them, just like he does in the show; and he also helps Trapper and Hawkeye rig a tent where Margaret and Frank are being intimate, and broadcast it all over the camp. These two characters were conflated into one on the TV show; they were both rolled up into "Radar" on the show; because Burghoff came back for the TV show; but Cort, then a rising movie star after Harold e Maude (1971) was released, did not.

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