Dr. Strangelove

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Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Loosely based on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (aka Two Hours to Doom), Dr. Strangelove satirizes the nuclear scare.

The story concerns a mentally unstable US Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and follows the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall the bombers to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, as well as the crew of one B-52 as they attempt to deliver their payload. ( Edited by Schligge)

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It was a hard choice whether to put this, Clockwork Orange or 2001 as #1. All three are brilliant, Kubrick at his very best. With most of his films, Kubrick seems to have set out to create the definitive example of a genre. Did he achieve this with Dr. Strangelove? Yes... and maybe beyond, since it's hard to think of anything else like it.
by Anonymous 4 years ago

"Dr Strangelove" was the first Stanley Kubrick film I saw...though I think I was too young, at the time, to get the subtleties of the message. I now have seen the film many more times and really enjoy the sarcasm and mockery that the film conveys.
by plmiller 4 years ago