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created on: 21/02/2016
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Peter Sellers - George C. Scott
Dr. Strangelove
Or:
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb
The hot-line suspense comedy
Movie Genre :
Comedy
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Movie Type :
Film
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Color & sound :
Black & White (With Sound)
Originally released :
1964
Language - Spoken :
English
Rating :
MPAA (US) PG – Parental Guidance Suggested
Running time :
95
Movie credits (on artwork) :
Actor : George C. Scott
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Actor : Keenan Wynn
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Actor : Peter Sellers
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Actor : Slim Pickens
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Actor : Sterling Hayden
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Actor : Tracy Reed
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Book By (Based On) : Peter George
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Directed By : Stanley Kubrick
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Producer : Stanley Kubrick
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Screenplay By : Peter George
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Screenplay By : Stanley Kubrick
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Screenplay By : Terry Southern
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Presented By : Columbia Pictures
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Awards:
BAFTA Best Art Direction
BAFTA Best British Film
BAFTA Best Film
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Description (by producer & GT in English only) :
Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy about a group of war-eager military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse is both funny and frightening - and seems as relevant today as ever. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper and joint chief of Staff Buck Turgidson - trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia's strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove, a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man's future. The President is helpless to stop the bombers, as is Captain Mandrake, the only man who can stop them.
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Posted by DaveB. (6) on februari 22, 2016
Produced at the height of the Cold War, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove tells the story of how one man's insanity triggers an all-out nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet, despite such grim subject matter, Dr. Strangelove is unmistakably a comedy, and features a number of prodigiously funny moments.



George C. Scott is Gen. Buck Turgeson, an intensely patriotic advisor to the President who, at one point, suggests that the United States fully commit to a war with the Russians, justifying it by way of a study that claimed the U.S would suffer only “modest and acceptable civilian casualties” in such a war…a mere 10-20 million dead, tops. When this ‘acceptable’ number of the General’s horrifies the President and his staff, Turgeson curtly replies, “Look, I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed a bit”.



Scott, arrogant as all hell, is hilarious in this scene, but its Peter Sellers who delivers Dr. Strangelove's funniest, and most oft-quoted, line. Scott's Gen. Turgeson has just caught Russian Ambassador de Sadesky (played by Peter Bull) with a spy camera, and as the two of them are wrestling around on the floor, Peter Sellers, as President Merkin Muffley, walks over and chastises them, saying “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here…this is the war room!”



Still, not everything in Dr. Strangelove is a laughing matter. To coincide with the jokes on the ground, director Stanley Kubrick also brings us on-board a bomber piloted by Maj. T.J. ‘King’ Kong (Slim Pickens). In order to ensure that the scenes on the bomber rang true, Kubrick never informed Pickens or the other actors (including a young James Earl Jones) that Dr. Strangelove was going to be a comedy. As a result, the tension aboard that aircraft remains genuine, and their bombing run, which, if successful, will bring about the end of the world, is filled with excitement and peril.



Well, nuclear devastation can’t be all fun and games, can it?

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Submitted by : bob (9222)
on : 21/02/2016
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