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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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 Soviet ambassador describes the Doomsday Machine as an array of 100 megaton bombs covered with a special fallout-inducing material. A few years before the movie's release, the Soviets produced a working 100 megaton bomb design (the "Tsar Bomba") but scaled it back to 50 megatons before testing. If the full- scale bomb were tested, it would have increased the global radioactive fallout from all nuclear detonations to that point in history by 25%. Interestingly, by removing the fallout-producing uranium third stage, the scaled-back test had the lowest fallout per kiloton of explosive power.
Many of the characters have names which are double entendres or innuendos: Jack D. Ripper refers to the famous London murderer; Merkin Muffley's names refer to female parts - a merkin is a pubic hair wig and muff is slang for women's pubic hair; Turgidson's first name is "Buck" and "turgid" is a word describing the condition of an erect penis; the Soviet premier is "Kissoff"; the Soviet ambassador is named after the Marquis de Sade (the original "sadist"); and the title character is called "Strangelove".
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