The World of Stanley Kubrick: Doctor Strangelove...

Rating: 10/10 (30 July 2005)

Doctor Strangelove (1964) was another dark black and white comedy that Kubrick directed. Filmed and produced right after Lolita, Kubrick decided to work with the enigmatic actor Peter Sellers. This time he plays three different characters (an R.A.F. officer, President Muffley and Doctor Stranglove). George C. Scott co-stars as a manic gum chewing general, Slim Pickens as the S.A.C. bomber pilot (playing the role as straight as an arrow) Sterling Hayden playing the crazed airbase commander Jack D. Ripper, and a early appearance from James Earl Jones as a bomber air man.
The story is about an airbase commander who snaps and thinks the communists have infiltrated the U.S. by poisoning the drinking water and seals of the base and sends it's S.A.C. bombers on a mission to destroy the U.S.S.R. This emergency leads to an international incident when the president of the United States is notified by the premier of the Soviet Union and their ambassador about a self defense mechanism that they have developed. Once a nuclear weapon has detonated in their airspace it will go off setting a chain reaction of thermonuclear destruction. Can the U.S. government stop this rogue general? Can they knock the bomber out of commission? How does Peter Sellers handle all three roles? You'll have to find out for yourself by watching Doctor Strangelove.
I have to give this movie one of my highest recommendation possible award. one of the funniest comedies I have ever seen. Knowledge about the Cold War will make it even funnier! "We'll meet again....."