The full absurdness of the Cold War revealed...

Rating: 10/10 (6 July 2000)

Based on the somewhat serious novel "Red Alert" by Peter George, Kubrick decided the only to portray this bizarre situation was through comedy. After a paranoid general launches a full-scale nuclear attack on the USSR it becomes clear the "commies" have developed a Doomsday retaliatory device that can wipe out all life on Earth. Peter Sellers steals the show taking three roles (that would have been four if not for illness) including the concerned President of the US. But it is as the title mentioned Doctor Strangelove with which he will be most remembered; a wheelchair bound former-Nazi with an uncontrollable mechanical arm. Highly recommended for the greatest cinematic example of black comedy.