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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Released: February 27, 2001
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Single Side - Dual Layer
- Special Edition
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital Mono
- Additional Release Material:
- Documentary: INSIDE THE MAKING OF DR. STRANGELOVE
- Featurette: THE ART OF STANLEY KUBRICK
- Interviews:
- George C. Scott
- Peter Sellers
- Trailers:
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- FAIL SAFE
- ANATOMY OF A MURDER
- Text/Photo Galleries:
- Original Advertising Gallery
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:
"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."
- General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) to Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers)
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
- President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) to General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and Ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull)
"This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that."--President Muffley "Our source was the New York Times."
- Ambassador de Sadesky
"You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."
- Colonel Bat Guano (Keenan Wynn) to Mandrake
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Entertainment Reviews:
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...his film is a protest against the dehumanization which makes it possible for some strategists to mention "acceptable" casualties of tens of millions in the first few hours of a nuclear "victory."
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Maclean's Magazine
...The film, of course, hasn't lost a thing, starting with three exceptional performances by Peter Sellers and another by underrated Sterling Hayden...
USA Today
Stanley Kubrick's quintessential Cold War Comedy is also one of the savvier movies, period, about politics in the postnuclear era.
Wall Street Journal
...DR. STRANGELOVE is filled with great comic performances....Arguably the best political satire of the century...
Chicago Sun-Times
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
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
Despite the despairing theme, it's still among the funniest films ever made -- and, in his three roles, Peter Sellers delivers several classic speeches that will live forever...
Empire
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
Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: January 30, 1964.
- Filmed at Shepperton Studios, England.
- DR. STRANGELOVE was an original selection of the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989.
- DR. STRANGELOVE is number 3 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Funniest Movies and number 26 on the American Film Institute's list of America's 100 Greatest Movies.
- The film begins with the following disclaimer: "It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead."
- James Earl Jones makes his feature-film debut in DR. STRANGELOVE.
- The part of Major King Kong, played by Slim Pickens, was originally written for John Wayne, who turned the role down. Peter Sellers was then set to play the role, but due to an accident was unable to do so. Kubrick eventually chose Pickens because the two had worked together briefly on ONE EYED JACKS.
- The ending scene was originally going to contain a pie fight, but was considered too over the top by director Stanley Kubrick.
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