Glorious movie

Rating: 10/10 (8 November 2006)

Kubrick's first major success. Staring peter Sellers in three roles, as Dr Strangelove, President Muffley, and group Captain Lionel Mandrake. The film tells the story of General Jack D. Ripper who seals off the air base he commands, and orders a fleet of B-52 Bombers to strike the Soviet Union. The army is forced to storm the base, and Ripper commits suicide, taking the recall codes with him. Mandrake manages to decipher the code from the General's papers. Unfortunately, one of the planes is damaged in the attack, and fails to respond. The Soviet Premier, Pistoff, tells Muffley that Russia has recently installed a Doomsday Machine, which will automatically set off all the atom bombs in the world if the Soviet Union is attacked. The bomb is dropped with an American cowboy riding it all the way down and mankind comes to an inglorious end. This is black comedy of the finest kind.