Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) - Overview - MSN Movies

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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NR,1hr 33min
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January 29, 1964
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Sony Pictures
Synopsis: In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. Dr. Strangelove's jet-black satire (from a script by director Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern) and a host of superb comic performances (including three from Peter Sellers) have kept the film ... Full Synopsis
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Richard Gilliam
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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is widely regarded as the screen's greatest satire, a film that superbly encapsulates the fear and paranoia of the Cold War. There is not a sequence in the film in which the dialogue is not quotable -- indeed, there are so many well-remembered moments that viewers and critics will differ on the best, though surely the sight of Major ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Dr. Strangelove, Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley
Gen. Buck Turgidson
Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Col. Bat Guano
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