Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (4K UltraHD + Blu-ray) PG
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- Rated: PG
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: July 6, 2021
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Sony Pictures
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:
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Age has not withered that final queasy nightmare of the mushroom clouds, set to Vera Lynn's hopeful We'll Meet Again - underscoring how the certainties of the second world war ceased to hold their meaning in the nuclear age.
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Guardian
Shooting DR. STRANGELOVE as if it were PATHS OF GLORY makes its ridiculous elements at once funnier and more chilling, emphasizing the Cold War’s inherent insanity....Making light of world annihilation is serious business, and Kubrick treats it as such, without sacrificing laughs. -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
...DR. STRANGELOVE is filled with great comic performances....Arguably the best political satire of the century...
Chicago Sun-Times
Nothing would seen to be farther apart than nuclear war and comedy, yet Kubrick's caper eloquently tackles a Fail-Safe subject with a light touch.
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Variety
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
It struck me at the tine and it strikes me now that Dr. Strangelove is a brilliant and edifying, even a moral, movie.
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LIFE
...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
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
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