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

“U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a “Doomsday Machine” which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that “such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious”. Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ? Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}”

  • Director: Stanley Kubrick
  • Release Date: 29 January 1964 (USA)
  • Run Time: 93 min
  • Country: UK
  • Genre: Comedy , Thriller
  • MPAA: Rated PG for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language. (2005 re-rating)

Tagline: the hot-line suspense comedy

Trivia: The end sequence, in which Vera Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” is played over several shots of nuclear explosions, was suggested by Peter Sellers’ fellow ex-Goon, Spike Milligan.

Goofs: Factual errors: When Major Kong is reading the contents of the crew’s survival kits, he mentions, “one automatic pistol”. In fact, the weapon shown as he reads that description aloud is clearly not an “automatic” but, rather, is a typical semi-automatic pistol.

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