Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Name: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genre: comedy, war
Released: 1964
Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

R
1964
95 min
comedy, war

After a delusional general launches a nuclear attack on the USSR, a U.S. President, his advisors, and a deranged scientist frantically try to recall the bombers before a retaliatory Doomsday Machine is triggered.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens

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Won the 1965 BAFTA Award for Best British Film

Stanley Kubrick's brilliant Cold War satire remains as funny and razor-sharp today as it was in 1964.

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) was a highly influential and often controversial American film director, screenwriter, and producer, widely regarded as one of cinema's greatest and most innovative...

Main Cast

Peter Sellers

as Group Capt. L. Mandrake / President Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott

as General Turgidson
Sterling Hayden

as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn

as Colonel Bat Guano
Slim Pickens

as Major "King" Kong
Peter Bull

as Alexi De Sadesky
James Earl Jones

as Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed

as Miss Scott
Jack Creley

as Mr. Staines
Shane Rimmer

as Capt. "Ace" Owens