Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - Special Edition

Comedy, Thriller

Peter Sellers	Group Captain (G/C) Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott	Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden	Brig. Gen. Jack T. Ripper
Keenan Wynn	Col. 'Bat' Guano
Slim Pickens	Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong
Peter Bull	Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
James Earl Jones	Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed	Miss Foreign Affairs
Jack Creley	Mr. Staines
Frank Berry	Lt. H.R. Dietrich

Director	Stanley Kubrick
Producer	Stanley Kubrick
Writer	Peter George; Stanley Kubrick

Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold-war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr. Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity, beginning when General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a maniacal warrior obsessed with "the purity of precious bodily fluids," mounts his singular campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the Soviet Union. The Soviets counter the threat with a so- called "Doomsday Device," and the world hangs in the balance while the U.S. president (Peter Sellers) engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart. Sellers also plays a British military attaché and the mad bomb-maker Dr. Strangelove; George C. Scott is outrageously frantic as General Buck Turgidson, whose presidential advice consists mainly of panic and statistics about "acceptable losses." With dialogue ("You can't fight here! This is the war room!") and images (Slim Pickens's character riding the bomb to oblivion) that have become a part of our cultural vocabulary, Kubrick's film regularly appears on critics' lists of the all-time best. --Jeff Shannon