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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 27, 2001
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Peter Sellers & George C. Scott | |
Performer: | Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed & Jack Creley | |
Directed by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Edited by | Anthony Harvey | |
Screenwriting by | Terry Southern, Stanley Kubrick & Peter George | |
Composition by | Laurie Johnson | |
Produced by | Stanley Kubrick | |
Director of Photography: | Gilbert Taylor |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Entertainment Reviews:
Kubrick's atomic-powered black comedy, scripted to perfection by Terry Southern.
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It struck me at the tine and it strikes me now that Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant and edifying, even a moral, movie.
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LIFE
Shooting DR. STRANGELOVE as if it were PATHS OF GLORY makes its ridiculous elements at once funnier and more chilling, emphasizing the Cold War’s inherent insanity....Making light of world annihilation is serious business, and Kubrick treats it as such, without sacrificing laughs. -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliant, bold, very funny, and terrifyingly plausible beneath its surface absurdities. (4k restoration and new short film)
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Caution Spoilers
To me, Dr. Strangelove is an evil thing about an evil thing; you will have to make up your own mind about it.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Though the principals in the race to Armageddon may have changed since Kubrick's time, his film is still as effective a piece of satire as ever.
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Dog and Wolf
Kubrick has shown before that he is a director of rare gifts. Dr. Strangelove brings them into full realization.
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Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
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.
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.
Keywords:
Black Comedy
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Cult Film
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Classic
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Nuclear Destruction
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War
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Mad Doctor
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Recommended
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Military
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Satire
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Theatrical Release
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Cold War
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Essential Cinema
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