Dr strangelove director

Basic Film Information

• Release date: January 29, 1964
• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), Terry Southern (screenplay), Peter George (book and screenplay)
• Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Tracy Reed

Synopsis

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a political satire comedy, tells the story of a United States nuclear attack on Russia. The film follows three different locations which acted in isolation of each other: an air force base, the Pentagon, and a plane flying to bomb Russia. After many antics ensue, the planet ends in nuclear apocalypse.

Contemporary Reviews

• The New York Times is the “most shattering sick joke [the writer] had ever come across.” The reviewer appreciated the film’s satire, but felt it partially discredited the American military.

Background and Interesting Facts 

• The film was originally to conclude with a cust Group captain lionel mandrake!