Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

IMDB Rating: 8.70, 125868 votes

Taglines
  • the hot-line suspense comedy
Storyline
U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: "Hello, Dimitri....I'm fine....Now then, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb....The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb....Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders...he went a little funny in the head....and he went and did a silly thing....He ordered his planes to attack your country." A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating "all our precious bodily fluids" as part of their plan to take over the world." Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian's ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.
Actors
Group Captain Lionel MandrakePeter Sellers
President Merkin MuffleyPeter Sellers
Dr. StrangelovePeter Sellers
Gen. 'Buck' TurgidsonGeorge C. Scott
Brig. Gen. Jack D. RipperSterling Hayden
Col. 'Bat' GuanoKeenan Wynn
Maj. T.J. 'King' KongSlim Pickens
Russian Ambassador Alexi de SadeskyPeter Bull
Lt. Lothar ZoggJames Earl Jones
Miss ScottTracy Reed
Mr. StainesJack Creley
Lt. H.R. DietrichFrank Berry
Adm. RandolphRobert O'Neil
Lt. W.D. KivelGlenn Beck
FrankRoy Stephens

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