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Plot Summary. Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1968 Cold War-set military satire by British author Peter George, taking place both in the corridors of power in Washington and the field of war, as a madman threatens to turn the Cold War hot by launching a nuclear strike on Russia.
An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. 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 ...
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On Kong's B-52, the bomb doors jam, but Kong heroically opens them by hand and rides the bomb down towards its target. Dr. Strangelove theorizes about life for the remnants of humanity at the bottom of mineshafts as mushroom clouds cover the earth. Complete plot summary of Dr. Strangelove, written by specialists and reviewed by film experts.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn.
- (519K)
- Comedy, War
- Stanley Kubrick
- 1964-01-29
A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his ...
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- Stanley Kubrick
- PG
- Peter Sellers
Jul 11, 1999 · Kubrick the perfectionist left the unplanned slip in the film, because Scott made it seem convincing, and not an accident. "Dr. Strangelove" (1964) is filled with great comic performances, and just as well, because there's so little else in the movie apart from faces, bodies and words. Kubrick shot it on four principal locations (an office, the ...
Cast. Peter Sellers. George C. Scott. Sterling Hayden. An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. Loaded with thermonuclear weapons, a US bomber piloted by Major T. J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) is on a routine flight pattern near the Soviet Union when he ...
