Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Duration: 93

Genre: comedy, satire

Year Published: 1963

Creator: Films Incorporated

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones

Description: Originally planned as a serious adaptation of the Peter George novel, Kubrick's Cold War cautionary tale has come to be regarded as a masterpiece of black comedy. The narrative centers on the demented General Jack D. Ripper's decision to launch an attack inside the Soviet Union. Ripper's motivation for initiating a nuclear war is his paranoid conviction that a Communist conspiracy is responsible for his diminished sexual potency. Throughout the film, Kubrick reiterates the officer's obsession with a series of suggestive metaphors. Peter Sellers distinguishes himself in a triptych of roles: the title role of the eccentric scientist, the president of the U.S., and Captain Mandrake, a British officer who fails to dissuade General Ripper from his mad design. (Circulates).

Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper is commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which houses the Strategic Air Command 843rd Bomb Wing, equipped with B-52 bombers and nuclear bombs. Ripper orders his executive officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the UK Royal Air Force, to put the base on alert. He also issues "Wing Attack Plan R" to the patrolling aircraft, one of which is commanded by Major T. J. "King" Kong. All of the aircraft commence an attack flight on Russia and set their radios to allow communications only through the CRM 114 discriminator, which

Complete Record: Originally planned as a serious adaptation of the Peter George novel, Kubrick's Cold War cautionary tale has come to be regarded as a masterpiece of black comedy. The narrative centers on the demented General Jack D. Ripper's decision to launch an attack inside the Soviet Union. Ripper's motivation for initiating a nuclear war is his paranoid conviction that a Communist conspiracy is responsible for his diminished sexual potency. Throughout the film, Kubrick reiterates the officer's obsession with a series of suggestive metaphors. Peter Sellers distinguishes himself in a triptych of roles: the title role of the eccentric scientist, the president of the U.S., and Captain Mandrake, a British officer who fails to dissuade General Ripper from his mad design. (Circulates). , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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