Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | |
| Director(s) | Stanley Kubrick |
| Producer(s) | Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon (associate), Leon Minoff (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Comedy, Drama, War |
| Top Topics | Book-Based, Politics, Satire |
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Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Overview:
Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) was a Comedy - Drama Film directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon and Leon Minoff.
The film was based on the novel Red Alert written by Peter George published in 1958.
SYNOPSIS
When a psychotic U.S. general launches a preemptive strike against "the Commies," the American president (Sellers, in one of three roles) must deal with gung-ho military brass, bureaucratic bumbling, a drunken Soviet premier, and a twisted German rocket scientist. Horribly funny. Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1989.
Academy Awards 1964 --- Ceremony Number 37 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Actor | Peter Sellers | Nominated |
| Best Director | Stanley Kubrick | Nominated |
| Best Picture | Stanley Kubrick, Producer | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, Terry Southern | Nominated |
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Quotes from
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: If you don't put that gun away and stop this stupid nonsense, the court of Enquiry on this'll give you such a pranging, you'll be lucky if you end up wearing the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant.
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The character of President Merklin Muffley (Peter Sellers) was patterned after Adlai Stevenson II, who lost two presidential elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower before becoming America's ambassador to the United Nations (1961-1965, dying in office), which was his position at the time this film was made.
In Terry Southern's script, Muffley has a bad cold. Peter Sellers played this up so hilariously that the cast kept cracking up during filming. Stanley Kubrick decided to make him a foil for everyone else's craziness instead, and re-shot the scenes with Sellers now playing the role straight.
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