Don't forget Terry Southern

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2000)

Dr. Strangelove is probably the best comedy of the 1960's, possibly the best black comedy ever and certainly Kubrick's best film. But we need to give credit where credit is due: Terry Southern is the person who gave us General Ripper's fixation with bodily fluids and Colonel "Bat" Guano's certainty that Mandrake was a prevert of some sort. In lesser hands all of this might have come off as infantile, but giving Kubrick all the credit is simply unfair.