Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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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
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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
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A scene from Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb