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Dr. Strangelove (1964)  link to Dr. Strangelove on IMDb  

Number: 1684

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IMDb Rating:
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8.5/10 (377.1K votes)

Also known as: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Country: United States, 95 minutes

Spoken languages: English, Russian

Genres: Comedy, War

Director(s): Stanley Kubrick

Storyline:
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all ...

Cast:

Peter Sellers Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn Col. 'Bat' Guano
Slim Pickens Maj. 'King' Kong

Medium: Original DVD,

Location: Drawer 14 Slot 116

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 1.66:1