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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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Release Date:
29 January 1964 (USA)
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Tagline:
the hot-line suspense comedy
Plot:
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 10 wins
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4 nominations
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Kubrick takes a whack at comedy- and the cold war
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Sellers | ... | Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove | |
| George C. Scott | ... | General 'Buck' Turgidson | |
| Sterling Hayden | ... | Brigadier General Jack Ripper | |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Colonel 'Bat' Guano | |
| Slim Pickens | ... | Major 'King' Kong | |
| Peter Bull | ... | Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky | |
| James Earl Jones | ... | Lieutenant Lothar Zogg | |
| Tracy Reed | ... | Miss Scott | |
| Jack Creley | ... | Mr. Staines | |
| Frank Berry | ... | Lieutenant Dietrich | |
| Robert O'Neil | ... | Admiral Randolph | |
| Glenn Beck | ... | Lieutenant Kivel (as Glen Beck) | |
| Roy Stephens | ... | Frank | |
| Shane Rimmer | ... | Captain 'Ace' Owens | |
| Hal Galili | ... | Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member |
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Also Known As:
A Delicate Balance of Terror (USA) (working title)
Dr. Strangelove (USA) (short title)
Edge of Doom (USA) (working title)
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Dr. Strangelove (USA) (short title)
Edge of Doom (USA) (working title)
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Rated PG for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language. (2005 re-rating)
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93 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Canada:A (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) (Canadian Home Video rating) |
Spain:18 |
Portugal:M/12 |
South Korea:12 |
Brazil:10 |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Canada:G (Québec) |
Finland:K-16 |
France:U (re-release) |
Germany:12 (re-rating) |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Iceland:Unrated |
Ireland:PG |
Japan:Unrated |
Netherlands:AL (video rating) |
New Zealand:PG |
Norway:11 |
Singapore:PG (DVD rating) |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG |
USA:Approved (Certificate No. 20469) (original rating) |
USA:GP (re-rating) (1970) |
USA:PG (re-rating) (2004) |
West Germany:16
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In Terry Southern's script, Muffley has a bad cold. Peter Sellers played this up so hilariously that the cast kept cracking up during filming.Stanley Kubrick decided to make him a foil for everyone else's craziness instead, and re-shot the scenes with Sellers now playing the role straight.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Mandrake made the phone call to the president, the communication system was supposed to be dead. However, there are no doubt multiple phone lines going into a major air base, and it is quite conceivable that a public pay phone would be on a completely separate phone system than the direct line to SAC Headquarters. In fact, Mandrake did mention the possibility that it would not be working.
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Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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Referenced in "Big Wolf on Campus: Flugelhoff! (#1.11)" (1999)
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We'll Meet Again
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How was the doomsday device triggered?Why would the Ambassador be taking pictures if the world as they knew it was about to end?
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Stanley Kubrick always likes to try something new with each movie he does, and this proves it. This is truly one of the grittiest, and best dark comedies I've ever seen with some crude moments and some odd ones (who'd think to have Slim Pickens riding a bomb on it's way down). It turns into a flat out masterpiece though with the spectacular acting by Peter Sellers (in three separate roles), George C. Scott (his facial expressions are a crack up every time), and a supporting cast of crazies in a government of loons, the most impressive of these being the incomparable Sterling Hayden in his best dramatic/funny role. It contains a resonance as well that sticks till today, as corruption and pig-headedness rules in all sorts of governments, but most of all in those with the most power. It's almost worth it just for the opening credits and end sequence with "we'll meet again".