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

Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, William H. Basset, James Earl Jones, Leon Minoff
Directed By: David Naylor, Stanley Kubrick
Studio: Sony Pictures
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Run Time: 93 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: January 29, 1964
DVD Release Date: February 27, 2001
Format: DVD
Genres: Classics, Cult Movies

Stanley kubricks brilliant classic is the perfect showcase for the versatitlity of peter sellers who takes on three distinctive roles in the film. Funny and frightening this black comedy about a group of military men who plan a nuclear apocalypse seems as relevant today as ever. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/06/2007 Starring: Peter Sellers Sterling Hayden Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Stanley Kubrick

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Amazon.com Editorial Review:
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