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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964

Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott

Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Written by: Terry Southern

Language: English, Russian

Country: UK

Runtime: 95 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.6

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Profile of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb can be described as biting, cynical, and clever. The plot revolves around anti-war themes, military life, and chaos. Its comic aspect comes from dark humor and satire. Its main genres are comedy and independent. In approach, it is not serious. It is set, at least in part, on a military base. It takes place in the 1960s. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a book. It has received attention for being original, a classic, and a masterpiece.

Summary of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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.

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Language:	English, Russian
Country:	UK
Release date:	29 January 1964
Runtime:	95 min

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Peter Sellers

as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

George C. Scott

as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

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Chicago Tribune

This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time. Full Review

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by: Michael Wilmington

The New York Times

The ultimate touch of ghoulish humor is when we see the bomb actually going off, dropped on some point in Russia, and a jazzy sound track comes in with a cheerful melodic rendition of "We'll Meet Again Some Sunny Day." Somehow, to me, it isn't... Full Review

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by: Bosley Crowther

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Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Smart, great social commentary and funny as hell. It is hard to believe this movie was made in the 60's. I can only wonder how much courage it must have taken to bash the military of the USA and the USSR in the middle of the cold war. After all... Read and rate it

05.January.2011
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by: wriswith
wriswith rated this movie8/10Great

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan
ColumboFan rated this movie0/10

There are very few perfect movies. I love "Citizen Kane" but sometimes Orson Welles' performance is just a shade too hammy and winking for my taste. "Psycho" is awesome but it has that babbling wrapup speech by the psychiatrist. Even my personal favorite, "Tender Mercies", has a terrible off-key song that runs over the closing credits which irritates the hell out of me. But I've watched "Dr. Strangelove" countless times and it just doesn't have any flaws. I've tried to find them too - Kubrick kind of bugs me as a director. He made a lot of good movies - I love "The Killing" and "Paths of Glory" - but after "2001" ..zzz.. er, I'm sorry, I fell asleep there for a second. I just hear the title "2001" and I go right to sleep. Sometimes I think Stanley Kubrick likes fiddling with the buttons more than making actual entertainment, but that's just me. But, c'mon, "Eyes Wide Shut"? What the hell was THAT all about? You HAVE to be great director to make nudity boring. The orgy scene is about as exciting as a trip to the DMV. It must have taken years for Kubrick to suck the eroticism out of that movie. Anyway, you'd think that a comedy about nuclear annihilation would either go too far and turn into silliness, or be so dark as to seem like a sick joke. This kind of absurdism is very difficult to pull off, witness every other Terry Southern penned movie, or the career of Tim Burton, but Kubrick does not take one misstep. It's hilarious and disturbing in well timed measures, each balancing out the other. Kubrick's arm's length approach to things fits perfectly here - too much emotion would just get in the way of the satire. Peter Sellers was at his peak, George C. Scott is surprisingly funny and Sterling Hayden is great. A person just cannot go to his grave without seeing this movie.

05.September.2010
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by: ColumboFan

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