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DR STRANGELOVE 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 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.

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EAN5050629003512

eBay Product ID (ePID)102240057

Product Key Features

ActorGeorge C. Scott, Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden, Tracy Reed, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Jack Creley

Film/TV TitleDr. Strangelove How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

DirectorStanley Kubrick

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Bulgarian\Czech\Danish\English\Finnish\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Slovak\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish

Run Time95 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.66 Anamorphic

Release Year2012

FormatBlu-ray

FeaturesAn Interview With Robert McNamara \'Best Sellers: Peter Sellers Remembered' featurette\'Inside: Dr. Strangelove' featurette\'No Fighting In The War Room Or: Dr. Strangelove And The Nuclear Threat' featurette\'The Art Of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films To Strangelove' featurette\The Cold War: Picture-in-Picture And Pop-Up Trivia Track (BD Exclusive), Black & White, Widescreen, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

ComposerLaurie Johnson

Additional InformationDR. STRANGELOVE 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.

ReviewsUncut - Kubrick's atomic-powered black comedy, scripted to perfection by Terry Southern, Rolling Stone - The blackest satire on the madness of war has grown more apt over time.

ScreenwriterTerry Southern, Stanley Kubrick, Peter George

Dubbing LanguagesPolish\Czech\Hungarian

Sound sourceDolby Digital

EditorAnthony Harvey

Movie/TV TitleDr. Strangelove How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb

Director of PhotographyGilbert Taylor