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Release Date:
29 January 1964 (USA)
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Tagline:
the hot-line suspense comedy
Plot:
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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(28 articles)
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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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In Terry Southern's script, Muffley has a bad cold. Peter Sellers played this up so hilariously that the cast kept cracking up during filming.Stanley Kubrick decided to make him a foil for everyone else's craziness instead, and re-shot the scenes with Sellers now playing the role straight.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Mandrake made the phone call to the president, the communication system was supposed to be dead. However, there are no doubt multiple phone lines going into a major air base, and it is quite conceivable that a public pay phone would be on a completely separate phone system than the direct line to SAC Headquarters. In fact, Mandrake did mention the possibility that it would not be working.
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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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Referenced in "Big Wolf on Campus: Flugelhoff! (#1.11)" (1999)
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We'll Meet Again
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Was there really a doomsday device?What was the Russian Ambassador doing with that little contraption at the end of the movie?
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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.