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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Stanley Kubrick |
| Stars: |
Peter Sellers |
| Actors: |
James Earl Jones |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · War · Cult Film · Mad Doctor · Satire · Black Comedy · Military · Nuclear Destruction · Cold War · Essential Cinema · Classic |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: 40th Anniversary Special Edition |
| UPC: |
043396040939 |
| Release Date: |
1964 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 33min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: 40th Anniversary Special Edition, 1hr 35min Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (November 02, 2004) UPC: 043396026162 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS, 1hr 33min Release Company: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (September 16, 1997) UPC: 043396226432 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Peter George |
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Professional Reviews
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(07/16/1999, p.5, Roger Ebert): "...DR. STRANGELOVE is filled with great comic performances....Arguably the best political satire of the century..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."--General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) to Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"--President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) to General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and Ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) "This is preposterous. I've never approved of anything like that."--President Muffley "Our source was the New York Times."--Ambassador de Sadesky "You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."--Colonel Bat Guano (Keenan Wynn) to Mandrake |
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| Details: |
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. <br> <br> 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 Sell... |
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