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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , 1964
English, Russian
UK
Plot
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.
Details
| Language: | English, Russian |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 29 January 1964 |
| Runtime: | 96 min |
Cast and Crew
as Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
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Critics Reviews
Chicago Tribune
This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time.
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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...
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- by: Bosley Crowther
Users Reviews
Dr. Strangelove comes from that olden era where plots, like, unfolded at a pace less than breakneck. I grew up in a bit of a different kind of world where the sweeping Spartacus has been replaced by Passion of the Christ. You gotta have that gore,...
- 22.June.2009
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- by: Laura
- Laura rated this movie
10/10Must See
As somebody born nearly 20 years after this film was made, it's difficult to understand what society was like around the Cold War and nuclear arms race, however the film is still relatable today... simply with a few minor changes (W. Bush as Ripper,...
- 23.March.2009
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- by: Michael
- Michael rated this movie6/10Okay
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