allanstein2's Full Review: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying...
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb", is a superbly twisted parody of what could happen if a U.S. Air Force Commander went, well, "funny", and launched a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.
It's total comedy waged on an intercontinental scale in producer/director Stanley Kubrik's dark satire of Cold War paranoia run amok. Featuring an all-star cast of Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, and Slim Pickens, "Dr. Strangelove" is the definitive solution to the problem of power mongering among the Superpowers.
Somewhere, deep within the Russian wasteland, the Soviets have hidden a Doomsday Device that is set to go off automatically in the event of a nuclear attack. Little do they realize that U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has quietly gone off his rocker. He unilaterally issues the Top Secret attack code to an airborne squadron of B-52 bombers laden with nukes.
Yes, it's nuclear conflict toe-to-toe with the Ruskies.
Recalling the squadron would be a simple matter if Ripper hadn't cordoned off his base, confiscated all transistor radios, and ordered his terrified subordinates to shoot at any approaching U.S. military convoy (those commies wear good disguises). Worse, only Ripper knows the attack code.
RAF Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) is the first to discover Ripper's mad belief that only through a preemptive strike can he stop the international communist plot to "sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids."
"How did you develop this theory?" Mandrake asks.
"Well, I first became aware of it during the physical act of love," replies Ripper, who attributes the sleepy after-effects of a recent sexual encounter to wholesale communist subversion.
Sellers displays his comedic genius and versatility again as President Merkin Muffley, the only one sane enough to defuse the crisis, and as the notorious Dr. Strangelove, ex-Nazi military adviser to America's top political brass. George C. Scott is brilliant as the cocky, gung-ho Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson. Slim Pickens is side-splitting hilarious as a B-52 commander who makes his mark riding a nuclear bomb bronco-style all the way to ground zero.
Since its theater debut in 1968 "Dr. Strangelove" has become an American cult classic with serious political and cultural implications. As comedy, it was the perfect antidote to The Cold War, the arms race, and the Cuban Missile Crisis - events which held the awesome potential to ruin everybody's day for a thousand years.
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