Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wyn, James Earl Jones
Synopsis:
A US base commander loses his mind and sends his B52 wing out to attack their targets inside the Soviet Union. One plane confounds all attempts to stop it and inadvertently sets off a Doomsday Machine which will destroy all life on the planet.
Review:
Released the same year as Fail Safe (qv.), a film which dealt very differently with the spectre of nuclear holocaust, Kubrick's satirical masterpiece is a tour de force of acting, direction and design, trimmed to perfection and cutting between the three theatres of the base, the war room and the bomber. Rarely have the director's razor-sharp mind and deadpan view of the absurdities of the human condition been put to better service.
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wyn, James Earl Jones
Synopsis:
A US base commander loses his mind and sends his B52 wing out to attack their targets inside the Soviet Union. One plane confounds all attempts to stop it and inadvertently sets off a Doomsday Machine which will destroy all life on the planet.
Review:
Released the same year as Fail Safe (qv.), a film which dealt very differently with the spectre of nuclear holocaust, Kubrick's satirical masterpiece is a tour de force of acting, direction and design, trimmed to perfection and cutting between the three theatres of the base, the war room and the bomber. Rarely have the director's razor-sharp mind and deadpan view of the absurdities of the human condition been put to better service.
Country: US
Technical: bw 93m
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wyn, James Earl Jones
Synopsis:
A US base commander loses his mind and sends his B52 wing out to attack their targets inside the Soviet Union. One plane confounds all attempts to stop it and inadvertently sets off a Doomsday Machine which will destroy all life on the planet.
Review:
Released the same year as Fail Safe (qv.), a film which dealt very differently with the spectre of nuclear holocaust, Kubrick's satirical masterpiece is a tour de force of acting, direction and design, trimmed to perfection and cutting between the three theatres of the base, the war room and the bomber. Rarely have the director's razor-sharp mind and deadpan view of the absurdities of the human condition been put to better service.