Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb (1964) UK
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Director:Kubrick, Stanley, Hayden, Sterling, Pickens, Slim, Scott, George C., Sellers, Peter, Wynn, Keenan
Studio:Columbia Pictures Corporation
Producer:Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon, Leon Minoff
Writer:Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
Rating:8.6 (201,486 votes)
Rated:PG
Date Added:2012-06-05
ASIN:043396026162
UPC:9780767863728
Price:$14.94
Awards:Nominated for 4 Oscars, Another 10 wins & 4 nominations
Genre:English films
Release:2001-02-27
IMDb:0057012
Duration:1:33:00
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.37 : 1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English, Russian
Subtitles:English, French, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Features:Black and White, Special Edition
LAC code:300010230
DVD or VHS:DVD
Original:DVD copy
Kubrick, Stanley, Hayden, Sterling, Pickens, Slim, Scott, George C., Sellers, Peter, Wynn, Keenan  ...  (Director)
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern  ...  (Writer)
 
Peter Sellers  ...  Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake
George C. Scott  ...  Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden  ...  Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper
Keenan Wynn  ...  Col. 'Bat' Guano
Slim Pickens  ...  Maj. 'King' Kong
Peter Bull  ...  Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
James Earl Jones  ...  Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed  ...  Miss Scott
Jack Creley  ...  Mr. Staines
Frank Berry  ...  Lt. Dietrich
Robert O'Neil  ...  Adm. Randolph
Glenn Beck  ...  Lt. Kivel
Roy Stephens  ...  Frank
Shane Rimmer  ...  Capt. 'Ace' Owens
Hal Galili  ...  Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
Laurie Johnson  ...  Composer
Lee Minoff  ...  
John Baxter  ...  
Paul Tamarin  ...  Lieutenant Goldberg
Laurence Herder  ...  Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
Gordon Tanner  ...  General Faceman
Gilbert Taylor  ...  Cinematographer
John McCarthy  ...  Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
Anthony Harvey  ...  Editor
Ken Adam  ...  Production Designer
Peter Murton  ...  Art Director
Leon Minoff  ...  Executive Producer
Summary: DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick's Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) is just the man to do it. Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence," the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Russians' top-secret Doomsday Machine. Shot in black and white, the film has three main centers of action: one of the B-52 bombers, on which a group of loyal men know they are about to start World War III; Burpelson Air Force Base, where Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) is trying to convince everyone that Ripper has gone mad and the bombing must be stopped; and the War Room, where President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) is trying to make peace with the Russians. The finale featuring Sellers as Dr. Strangelove is a comic gem. Hayden, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, and Sellers (in three roles) are especially terrific in what may be the funniest, most poignant black comedy ever made, a vicious satire on the farcical aspects of the military and the cold war.