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Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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• Comedy
• War

• 1963
• Stanley Kubrick
• 94 mins
• PG

Summary

Satirical Cold War comedy starring Peter Sellers, George C Scott and Sterling Hayden. In the firm belief that his impotence is the result of a Soviet plot to poison the water supply of the "free world", General Jack D Ripper dispatches a squadron of nuclear-armed war planes to bomb Russia. It is the task of President Merkin Muffley, hidden deep in the Pentagon War Room, to sort out this little problem.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Tom Hutchinson

Is this the way the world ends - not with a bang but a whimper? Stanley Kubrick's ferocious Cold War satire makes us smile through gritted teeth as unhinged general Sterling Hayden sends a squadron of nuclear bombers to attack Russia and inadvertently triggers an apocalypse-laden doomsday machine. Peter Sellers's three performances - bemused airman, befuddled president and crazed US Nazi adviser, re-armed by the prospect of world annihilation - spiral from gentle humour to surreal horror. The scenes in which Hayden raves about "bodily fluids" and Pentagon general George C Scott rants about statistical deaths were obviously inspired by Sellers's genius. Kubrick's unsparing disgust with our warlike instincts was never so obvious - nor so grimly comic.

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Cast

rolenameGroup Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr StrangelovePeter SellersGeneral "Buck" TurgidsonGeorge C ScottGeneral Jack D RipperSterling HaydenColonel "Bat" GuanoKeenan WynnMajor TJ "King" KongSlim PickensAmbassador de SadeskyPeter BullMiss ScottTracy ReedLieutenant Lothar ZoggJames Earl JonesMr StainesJack CreleyLieutenant HR DietrichFrank BerryLieutenant WD KivelGlenn BeckCaptain GA "Ace" OwensShane RimmerLieutenant B GoldbergPaul TamarinGeneral FacemanGordon TannerAdmiral RandolphRobert O'NeilFrankRoy Stephens

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rolenameDirectorStanley Kubrick

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Released on

2019-05-17

Languages

English | Russian

Guidance

Contains some swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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