An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
- Director
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick(screenplay)
- Terry Southern(screenplay)
- Peter George(screenplay)
- Stars
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- Director
- Writers
- Stanley Kubrick(screenplay)
- Terry Southern(screenplay)
- Peter George(screenplay)
- Stars
- See more at IMDbPro
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 14 wins & 11 nominations total
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Storyline
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson's wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what's going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have an as yet unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. "King" Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can't make it to his intended target. —Huggo
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- The comedy classic from celebrated director STANLEY KUBRICK
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- Certificate
- AL
- Parents guide
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- TriviaPeter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55% of the film's budget. Stanley Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".
- GoofsTowards the end of the film, when Strangelove is fighting with his renegade right hand over control of his wheelchair and punches it several times out of frustration, the Russian Ambassador (Peter Bull) clearly corpses (laughs) at Peter Sellers' performance and then quickly regains his composure.
- Quotes
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
- Crazy creditsThe screenplay title is incorrectly spelled. It reads: 'Base' on the book "Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement about the making of the film.
- Alternate versionsThe US version opens with the following text being displayed before the Columbia lady appears: "It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurence 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."
- ConnectionsEdited into Hai-Kubrick (1999)
- SoundtracksTry a Little Tenderness
(1932) (uncredited)
Music by Harry M. Woods, Reginald Connelly, and Jimmy Campbell
Arranged by Laurie Johnson
Performed by Studio Orchestra during the opening credits
Top review
Sharp and outrageously entertaining
I never really bought into the Kubrick hype. I mean: don't get me wrong; I like all of his films very much - but to me, they all feel somewhat over-constructed and lack a natural flow. And then I finally got to see 'Dr.Strangelove'. Wow. What a terrific, pitch black satire. This film is so wild and mean and funny - and Peter Sellers gives THE performance of his career. Unlike in any of Kubrick's later works, there's a sense of playfulness here that gives the whole movie a crazy kind of energy; I'm guessing that Seller's love for improvisation forced Kubrick to ditch his usual perfectionism to a certain degree (and the film is all the better for it). Sharp, outrageously entertaining comedy/satire by one of the most revered directors of the past century. 10 out of 10.
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- Also known as
- A Delicate Balance of Terror
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- Budget
- $1,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $9,440,272
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,751
- Jul 17, 1994
- Gross worldwide
- $9,523,464
- Runtime
- 1h 35min
- Color
- Sound mix
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