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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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Ratings: 8.6/10 from 200,203 users
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Reviews: 728 user | 138 critic | 11 from Metacritic.com An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. Director:Stanley Kubrick |
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Adm. Randolph
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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... Written by Huggo
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the hot-line suspense comedyMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language (re-rating) (2004) See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Dr. Strangelove See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,800,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
DEM 135,694 (West Germany) (24 December 1987) (21 Screens)Gross:
$9,440,272 (USA) (31 December 1994)Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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"Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement
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(1939) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles
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The character of General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) was patterned after Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was renowned for his extreme anti-Communist views and who once stated that he would not be afraid to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union if he was elected president. Similarly, Brigadier General Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden) was patterned after General Thomas S. Power, LeMay's protégé and successor as Commander in Chief of Strategic Air Command. When briefed on a RAND proposal to limit U.S. nuclear strikes on Soviet cities at the beginning of a war, Power responded, "Restraint! Why are you so concerned with saving their lives! The whole idea is to kill the bastards!...At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win!" See more »Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): De Sadesky says that the fallout from the doomsday device has a half-life of 93 years, but then he also says that the fallout would circle Earth for 93 years. This is a contradiction: half-life is the time it takes for radiation to be halved, not completely dissipated. It is common however for people to confuse these concepts, and the dissipation time for the fallout from a nuclear weapon salted with cobalt is indeed about a century. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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Crazy Credits
The screenplay title is incorrectly spelled. It reads: 'Base' on the book"Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement
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Soundtracks
"We'll Meet Again"(1939) (uncredited)
Music and Lyrics by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles
Performed by Vera Lynn and chorus at the end See more »
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