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

Plot

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

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

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (usually shortened to Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. Financed and released by Columbia Pictures, the film was a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom. Dr. Strangelove parodies the heightened fears during the Cold War of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and stars Peter Sellers (portraying three different characters), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed. The story begins when a paranoid United States Air Force brigadier general goes rogue and orders an unprovoked pre-emptive attack on the Soviet Union using all his B-52s. The President of the United States, his scientific advisor Dr. Strangelove, a Royal Air Force exchange officer, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff luckily recall the B-52s; unfortunately, an isolated and crippled B-52 still bombs the Soviet Union, triggering their new doomsday device. The film is widely considered one of the best comedy films and one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it 26th in its list of the…

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