Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (Sterling Hayden); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded U.S. President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair-bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- New interviews with Stanley Kubrick scholars Mick Broderick and Rodney Hill; archivist Richard Daniels; cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton; camera operator Kelvin Pike; and David George, son of Peter George, on whose novel Red Alert the film is based
- Excerpts from a 1966 audio interview with Kubrick, conducted by physicist and author Jeremy Bernstein
- Four short documentaries, about the making of the film, the sociopolitical climate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry of Kubrick
- Interviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. Scott
- Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC’s Today show
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1994 article by screenwriter Terry Southern on the making of the film
New cover by Eric Skillman
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio
- New interviews with Stanley Kubrick scholars Mick Broderick and Rodney Hill; archivist Richard Daniels; cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton; camera operator Kelvin Pike; and David George, son of Peter George, on whose novel Red Alert the film is based
- Excerpts from a 1966 audio interview with Kubrick, conducted by physicist and author Jeremy Bernstein
- Four short documentaries, about the making of the film, the sociopolitical climate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry of Kubrick
- Interviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. Scott
- Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC’s Today show
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1994 article by screenwriter Terry Southern on the making of the film
New cover by Eric Skillman
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
- Peter Bull
- Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
- James Earl Jones
- Lt. Lothar Zogg
- Tracy Reed
- Miss Scott
- Jack Creley
- Mr. Staines
- Frank Berry
- Lt. Dietrich
- Robert O‘Neil
- Adm. Randolph
- Glenn Beck
- Lt. Kivel
- Roy Stephens
- Frank
- Shane Rimmer
- Capt. Ace Owens
Credits
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Produced by
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay by
- Stanley Kubrick
- Screenplay by
- Terry Southern
- Screenplay by
- Peter George
- Based on the book Red Alert by
- Peter George
- Production designer
- Ken Adam
- Film editor
- Anthony Harvey
- Director of photography
- Gilbert Taylor
- Music
- Laurie Johnson
- Art director
- Peter Murton
- Associate producer
- Victor Lyndon
- Camera operator
- Kelvin Pike
- Wardrobe
- Bridget Sellers
- Special effects
- Wally Veevers
- Production manager
- Clifton Brandon
- Camera assistant
- Bernard Ford
- Assistant director
- Eric Rattray
- Continuity
- Pamela Carlton
- Makeup
- Stuart Freeborn
- Sound editor
- Leslie Hodgson
- Hairdresser
- Barbara Ritchie
- Assistant editor
- Ray Lovejoy
- Main titles by
- Pablo Ferro
Trailer from Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
A scene from Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
