Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb [videorecording] : / Columbia Pictures Coporation presents ; a Stanley Kubrick production ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George ; produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick.
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FilmPublisher number: 06187 | Columbia Tristar Home VideoLanguage: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai Publication details: Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2001.Edition: Special edDescription: 1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767863720
- 9780767863728
- Doctor Strangelove
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
- Director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; production design, Ken Adam ; music, Laurie Johnson.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and played the situation for laughs. Dr. Strangelove's jet-black satire (from a script by director Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern) and a host of superb comic performances (including three from Peter Sellers) have kept the film fresh and entertaining, even as its issues have become (slightly) less timely. Loaded with thermonuclear weapons, a U.S. bomber piloted by Maj. T.J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) is on a routine flight pattern near the Soviet Union when they receive orders to commence Wing Attack Plan R, best summarized by Maj. Kong as "Nuclear combat! Toe to toe with the Russkies!" On the ground at Burpleson Air Force Base, Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) notices nothing on the news about America being at war. Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) calmly informs him that he gave the command to attack the Soviet Union because it was high time someone did something about fluoridation, which is sapping Americans' bodily fluids (and apparently has something to do with Ripper's sexual dysfunction). Meanwhile, President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) meets with his top Pentagon advisors, including super-hawk Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott), who sees this as an opportunity to do something about Communism in general and Russians in particular. However, the ante is upped considerably when Soviet ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) informs Muffley and his staff of the latest innovation in Soviet weapons technology: a "Doomsday Machine" that will destroy the entire world if the Russians are attacked. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the book "Red alert" by Peter George.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
Special features: New documentary: The art of Stanley Kubrick from short films to Strangelove; Inside the making of Dr. Strangelove; original split-screen interview with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott; original advertising gallery; theatrical trailers; talent files; animated menus; production notes; scene selections.
Director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; production design, Ken Adam ; music, Laurie Johnson.
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens.
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
MPAA rating: PG.
DVD; region 1; Dolby digital; 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
Soundtracks: English; dubbed French; dubbed Spanish; dubbed Portuguese; with optional English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai subtitles; closed captioned.