Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)

So very funny. Peter Sellers who received his first (of two) Best Actor Oscar nomination plays three different characters (including the somewhat insane ex-Nazi title role and the President of the United States!) but is perhaps upstaged by George C. Scott as the slightly off-kilter General ‘Buck’ Turgidson who rationalizes the killing of millions of innocent civilians. A Cold War black comedy! The film and its director Stanley Kubrick (also its producer) were also nominated as was Kubrick’s Screenplay written with Peter George & Terry Southern. Great supporting acting also provided by Sterling Hayden as the crazy Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper who starts World War III Keenan Wynn as base security Colonel ‘Bat’ Guano Slim Pickens as advance strike pilot Major T.J. ‘King’ Kong Peter Bull as the Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky and James Earl Jones as Lieutenant Lothar Zogg one of Kong’s crew. Added to the National Film Registry in 1989. #3 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list. #26 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies list. The cynically ironic & equally absurd line "Gentlemen you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!" is #64 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list.

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