Doctor Strangelove

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Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Peter Sellers as Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove

George C. Scott as General ‘Buck’ Turgidson

Keenan Wynn as Colonel ‘Bat’ Guano

Slim Pickens as Major T.J. ‘King’ Kong

Peter Bull as Ambassador Sadesky

Tracy Reed as Miss Scott

James Earl Jones as Lt. Lothar Zogg

Jack Creley as Mr. Staines

Frank Berry as Lt. H.R. Dietrich

Writers

Stanley Kubrick (screenplay)

Terry Southern (screenplay)

Peter George (screenplay and based on the novel ‘Red Alert’)


Summary

An insane American general orders a bombing on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
An insane American general orders a bombing on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.

Genre

Comedy, War

Released

Junuary 29, 1964

Runtime

1hr 35min

MPAA

PG, for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language

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