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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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Ratings: 8.6/10 from 200,128 users
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Reviews: 728 user | 138 critic | 11 from Metacritic.com An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. Director:Stanley Kubrick |
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Adm. Randolph
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Storyline
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, he 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... Written by Huggo
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the hot-line suspense comedyMotion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language (re-rating) (2004) See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Dr. Strangelove See more »Box Office
Budget:
$1,800,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
DEM 135,694 (West Germany) (24 December 1987) (21 Screens)Gross:
$9,440,272 (USA) (31 December 1994)Company Credits
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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"Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement
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(1863) (uncredited)
Music by the Union Army bandmaster, Louis Lambert
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Trivia
Based on the novel "Red Alert" by Peter George, and originally conceived as a tense thriller about the possibility of accidental nuclear war. Stanley Kubrick was working on the script when he realized that many scenes he had written were actually quite funny. He then brought in Terry Southern to turn the story into a satire. Among the changes were the addition of the title character and the renaming of other characters using satirical names such as Turgidson, Kissoff, Guano, DeSadesky, and Merkin Muffley. See more »Goofs
Factual errors: During the ending of the opening credits it says "Base on the Novel Red Alert" instead of "Based on the Novel Red Alert". See more »Quotes
[first lines]Narrator: For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high-level Western leaders that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was darkly hinted to be the ultimate weapon: a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top secret Russian project to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. What they were building or why it should be located in such a remote and desolate place no one could say.
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Crazy Credits
The screenplay title is incorrectly spelled. It reads: 'Base' on the book"Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement
about the making of the film. See more »
Soundtracks
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"(1863) (uncredited)
Music by the Union Army bandmaster, Louis Lambert
In the score often during the flight of Major 'King' Kong's aircraft See more »
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