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

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

    Synopsis

    After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

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    Cast

    • Peter SellersGroup Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
    • George C. ScottGeneral "Buck" Turgidson
    • Sterling HaydenBrigadier General Jack D. Ripper
    • Keenan WynnColonel Bat Guano
    • Slim PickensMajor "King" Kong
    • Peter BullBotschafter De Sadesky
    • James Earl JonesLt. Lothar Zogg
    • Tracy ReedMiss Scott
    • Jack CreleyMr. Staines
    • Frank BerryLt. Dietrich

    Recommendations

    • 100

      ReelViews

      A masterpiece... The genius of Dr. Strangelove is that it's possible to laugh -- and laugh hard -- while still recognizing the intelligence and insight behind the humor.
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      The film is a model of barely controlled hysteria in which the absurdity of hypermasculine Cold War posturing becomes devastatingly funny--and at the same time nightmarishly frightening in its accuracy.
    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      More lethal than a nuclear waste dump, Kubrick's komedy at least kills us with laughter... It's one of the greatest - and undoubtably the most hilarious - antiwar statements ever put to film.
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Seen after 30 years, Dr. Strangelove seems remarkably fresh and undated - a clear-eyed, irreverant, dangerous satire. And its willingness to follow the situation to its logical conclusion - nuclear annihilation - has a purity that today's lily-livered happy-ending technicians would probably find a way around.
    • 100

      Dallas Observer

      Kubrick's comic gem sparkles with enduring relevance.
    • 100

      Village Voice

      The hard-charging originality of the screenplay—the equivalent of turning "The Hot Zone" into a Farrelly comedy—suggests a deficient legacy of credit to Terry Southern's corner.
    • 100

      Boston Globe

      Is Dr. Strangelove Kubrick's best movie? Along with ''Paths of Glory," absolutely.
    • 90

      Variety

      George C. Scott as the fiery Pentagon general who seizes on the crisis as a means to argue for total annihilation of Russia offers a top performance, one of the best in the film. Odd as it may seem in this backdrop, he displays a fine comedy touch.

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