McMillan & Wife
1971
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The film, which satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, also stars George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed and is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who also cowrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern.
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5 Videos. 85 Photos. Slim Pickens spent the early part of his career as a real cowboy and the latter part playing cowboys, and he is best remembered for a single "cowboy" image: that of bomber pilot Maj. "King" Kong waving his cowboy hat rodeo-style as he rides a nuclear bomb onto its target in the great black comedy Dr. Strangelove or: How I ...
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. 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 ...
May 9, 2024 · The scene of an air force major (played by Slim Pickens) riding atop a falling nuclear bomb is one of the most enduring images in cinematic history. The film originally ended with an elaborate pie fight inside the War Room.
Oct 28, 1994 · His exit from the movie, riding a bomb like a bronco, remains one of the most famous moments in modern film. The only part of the film that doesn't really work is the War Room sequence that comes between Pickens' wild ride and the closing nuclear montage.
And when the bomb doors won't open, he sacrifices his own life, manually opening the doors and gleefully riding the bomb like a bull as it plummets toward oblivion, waving his Stetson like a rodeo rider. What point is the movie trying to make with a character like Kong?
