Great film that still remains relevant

Rating: 8/10 (29 May 2020)

Despite being in black and white and made in 1964 this remains a great film.
The cinematography is excellent especially of the bombers in mid air and the opening shot of refuelling is quire mesmerising.
It's classed as a comedy and there are scenes which are fairly funny though it's really a story of how things can go wrong with human "error" and lead to a nuclear bombing of Russia.
The main scenes are relatively few :-
The air base where a unhinged official plans to beat the safeguards and send a bomber on a mission to drop its nuclear bomb
The inside of the bomber with the crew receiving the shock command to drop the bomb
The presidents operational centre with the top level officials contacting the Russian leader ( Dimitry)
Peter Sellers plays three parts - An English soldier at the air base , the US president and Dr Strangelove - the obligatory mad scientist. Sellers is excellent in two roles but I thought the comedy of his wheelchaired Dr Strangelove was not particularly funny and fell somewhat flat ( otherwise I would have given it 9.0 )
It's a film that is entertaining and quite addictive to watch the build up of events - just the last 15 minutes with Sellers antics let's it down a little.
Well worth watching