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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a British film of genre Drama directed by Stanley Kubrick released in USA on 29 january 1964 with Peter Sellers

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Released in USA 29 january 1964
Length 1h35
Directed by
Genres Drama,    War,    Comedy
Rating82% 4.1494.1494.1494.1494.149

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, more commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 political satire black comedy film that satirizes the Cold War fears of a nuclear conflict between the USSR and the US. The film was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, stars Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and features Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens. Production took place in the United Kingdom. The film is loosely based on Peter George's thriller novel Red Alert.

The story concerns an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States, his advisers, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse. It separately follows the crew of one B-52 bomber as they try to deliver their payload.

In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included it in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was listed as number three on AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs list.

Synopsis

United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) is commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which houses the Strategic Air Command 843rd Bomb Wing, equipped with B-52 bombers. The 843rd is currently in-flight on airborne alert, a few hours from the Soviet border.

Actors

Peter Sellers

(Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove)George C. Scott

(General "Buck" Turgidson)Sterling Hayden

(Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper)Keenan Wynn

(Colonel Bat Guano)Slim Pickens

(Major "King" Kong)
And :
James Earl Jones
Peter C. Bull
Shane Rimmer
Tracy Reed
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