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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
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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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Subtle and Symbolic
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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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The illuminated symbols on the War Room map displays were cutouts lit by individual floodlights behind them. They generated so much heat that the display was damaged. Air-conditioning had to be installed.
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Factual errors: The bombs carried by the B-52 are 20 and 30 megaton thermo-nukes. However, the stock detonation footage used for the target blast is from operation Upshot-Knothole, event Grable at the Nevada Test Site. This test yielded 15 kilotons or 1/1000 the yield stated in the film. Many of the "Doomsday" blasts are similarly-sized weapons. There are a few megaton range blasts in the latter sequence but none approaching the 100 MT bomb size the Ambassador mentions as comprising the Doomsday Machine.
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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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Try a Little Tenderness
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A NOTE REGARDING SPOILERSWas there really a doomsday device?
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Entertainment Weekly called this one of the funniest 100 movies ever made. It also happens to be one of the most disturbing movies made. The humor is right there in your face, however, there is always an underlining political critique under every character, every line, and every government representation. Slim Pickins is the never quit Airman. He is a representative of our entire military system of the time. The president, played beautifully by Peter Sellers, is a demure, calm presence trying to deal with the Russian premiere. His perfect counterpart is a war hungry General, ready to accuse the Russians of any small infraction. This leads to one of the funniest lines in the whole movie. Sellers also plays a British airman who has to deal with the crazed general in the usual polite British manner. Seller's third role is that of the title character, Dr. Strangelove, a former nazi and weapons designer for the Americans. He represents the scientific community of that time period; those who worked tirelessly to build a better bomb. These characters, all of them strongly parodying a cross section of society make for an odd story. The final scene, while played for laughs, is actually a frightening image of a communist future. The final moments are frightening in their truth leading one to put themselves in a position of the characters. Dr. Strangelove is the funniest disturbing film I've ever seen.