U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  • Rating: (195,652 votes)
  • Tagline:the hot-line suspense comedy »
  • Runtime:95 minutes
  • Director: Stanley Kubrick
  • Country:UK
  • Actors:
    Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
    Peter Sellers
    Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
    George C. Scott
    Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper
    Sterling Hayden
    Col. 'Bat' Guano
    Keenan Wynn
    Maj. 'King' Kong
    Slim Pickens
    Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
    Peter Bull
    Lt. Lothar Zogg
    James Earl Jones
    Miss Scott
    Tracy Reed
    Mr. Staines
    Jack Creley
    Lt. Dietrich
    Frank Berry
  • Genres:Comedy, Drama
  • Producers:
    Stanley Kubrick
    producer  
    Victor Lyndon
    associate producer  
    Leon Minoff
    executive producer (uncredited)  
  • Plots: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, he believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson's wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what's going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have a yet as unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. "King" Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can't make it to his intended target. Written by Huggo
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • User's comment:Frighteningly hilarious by archyon

    This movie is possibly the best comedy ever made, only with one fact against it: it's not very "comical". Hilarious? Yes. Comical? Absolutely not. The horrors of the nuclear war caused by a simple mistake materialize before us, directed with skill by the late maestro, Kubrick.

    There are simply not enough words to describe Peter Sellers's BRILLIANT performance in three roles: A british officer, the U.S president and Dr. Strangelove. He is hilarious as the british officer, with his wonderful accent, gloomy and neurotic as the president and simply insane as Dr. Strangelove.

    Also note that this movie includes a performance by very young James Earl Jones, who we now all know as the voice behind Darth Vader.

    The ending scene is also a masterpiece.


  • Quotes: Major T. J. "King" Kong: Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want no horsing around on the airplane? Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones. You sure you got today's codes? Major T. J. "King" Kong: Well, boys, I reckon this is it - nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies. Now look, boys, I ain't much of a hand at makin' speeches, but I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. And I got a fair idea the kinda personal emotions that some of you fellas may be thinkin'. Heck, I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a-countin' on you and by golly, we ain't about to let 'em down. I tell you something else, if this thing turns out to be half as important as I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes for ever' last one of you regardless of your race, color or your creed. Now let's get this thing on the hump - we got some flyin' to do.
  • Also known as: Dr. Strangelove (Australia - short title), Dr. Strangelove (Norway - imdb display title), Dr. Strangelove (UK - short title), Dr. Strangelove (USA - short title), Docteur Folamour (Canada - French title), Docteur Folamour (France), Docteur Folamour, ou: Comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe (Belgium - dubbed version, French title), Docteur Folamour, ou: Comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombe (France - dubbed version), дНЙРНП яРПЕИМДФКЮБ ХКХ ЙЮЙ Ъ МЮСВХКЯЪ МЕ АНЪРЭЯЪ Х ОНКЧАХК ЮРНЛМСЧ АНЛАС (Soviet Union - Russian title), ¿Teléfono rojo?, volamos hacia Moscú (Spain), A Delicate Balance of Terror (USA - working title), Doctor Insólito (Peru - imdb display title), Doctor Insólito, o Como aprendí a no preocuparme y amar la bomba (Uruguay), Doctor Strangelove (Spain - Catalan title), Doktor Strejndzlav ili: Kako sam naucio da prestanem da brinem i zavoleo bombu (Serbia), Doutor Estranhoamor (Portugal - imdb display title), Dr Strangelove, czyli jak przestalem sie martwic i pokochalem bombe (Poland), Dr. Divnoláska aneb Jak jsem se naucil nedelat si starosti a mít rád bombu (Czech Republic), Dr. Fantástico (Brazil), Dr. Folamour (France), Dr. Insólito (Mexico - video title), Dr. Insólito o: Como aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar la bomba (Argentina), Dr. Seltsam oder Gebrauchsanweisung für Anfänger in der sorgenfreien Liebe zu Atomwaffen (Austria), Dr. Seltsam, oder wie ich lernte, die Bombe zu lieben (West Germany), Dr. Strangelove - eller Hvordan jeg lærte at glemme mine bekymringer og elske bomben (Denmark - imdb display title), Dr. Strangelove eller: Hur jag slutade ängslas och lärde mig älska bomben (Sweden - imdb display title), Dr. Strangelove, avagy rájöttem, hogy nem kell félni a bombától, meg is lehet szeretni (Hungary), Dr. Strangelove, eller: Hur jag slutade ängslas och lärde mig älska bomben (Finland - imdb display title, Swedish title), Edge of Doom (USA - working title), Garip doktor (Turkey - Turkish title), Hakase no ijô na aijô: Matawa watashi wa ikani shite shinpai suru no wo yamete suibaku wo aisuru you ni natta ka (Japan - imdb display title), Il dottor Stranamore, ovvero come imparai a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba (Italy), S.O.S Πεντάγωνο Καλεί Μόσχα (Greece), S.O.S. Pentagono kalei Mosha (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), SOS - Pentagono kalei Mosha (Greece - reissue title), Tohtori Outolempi eli: Kuinka lakkasin olemasta huolissani ja opin rakastamaan pommia (Finland - imdb display title), Tri Outolempi (Finland - short title),

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