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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
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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Frighteningly hilarious
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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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Major Kong's comment about the survival kit ("a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff") was originally "pretty good weekend in Dallas". This was overdubbed after President John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Slim Pickens can still be seen mouthing the word "Dallas".
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Continuity: General Turgidson learns from his secretary, Miss Scott, of General Ripper's ordered attack on the USSR at 3 a.m. Washington D.C. time. However, the concurrent scenes at Burpleson Air Force base (somewhere in the Western United States) take place in the daytime.
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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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Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (2006)
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Soundtrack:
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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FAQ
How did the doomsday device work, anyway?A NOTE REGARDING SPOILERS
Why would the Ambassador be taking pictures if the world as they knew it was about to end?
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This movie is possibly the best comedy ever made, only with one fact against it: it's not very "comical". Hilarious? Yes. Comical? Absolutely not. The horrors of the nuclear war caused by a simple mistake materialize before us, directed with skill by the late maestro, Kubrick.
There are simply not enough words to describe Peter Sellers's BRILLIANT performance in three roles: A british officer, the U.S president and Dr. Strangelove. He is hilarious as the british officer, with his wonderful accent, gloomy and neurotic as the president and simply insane as Dr. Strangelove.
Also note that this movie includes a performance by very young James Earl Jones, who we now all know as the voice behind Darth Vader.
The ending scene is also a masterpiece.