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STRANGELOVE (Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb) - MOVIE TRAILERS
STARRING:
Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim
Pickens, James Earl Jones
1964, 102 Minutes, Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Description: A spoof of political and military insanity,
beginning when General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden), a maniacal warrior
obsessed with "the purity of precious bodily fluids," mounts his singular
campaign against Communism by ordering a squadron of B-52 bombers to attack the
Soviet Union. The Soviets counter the threat with a so- called "Doomsday
Device," and the world hangs in the balance while the U.S. president (Peter
Sellers) engages in hilarious hot-line negotiations with his Soviet counterpart.
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- Hugo Award Winner (1965)
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script.
- Tagline:
"The hot-line suspense comedy!"
- Fact: Peter Sellers
was cast in four roles, but experienced problems when trying to develop a
Texas accent for Maj. T.J. "King" Kong. After Sellers broke his ankle,
Stanley Kubrick was forced to find another actor. Convinced that nobody
could have acted the part as well as Sellers, Kubrick decided to cast
someone who naturally fit the role. The producers first approached John
Wayne, who did not even bother to respond, and "Bonanza" (1959) star Dan
Blocker, who declined the role because of the script's progressive
political content. Remembering his work on the western One-Eyed Jacks
(1961), Kubrick cast Slim Pickens as Kong, the gung-ho hick pilot
determined to drop his bombs at any cost. Pickens was never shown the
script nor told it was a black comedy; ordered by Kubrick to play it
straight, he played the role as if it were a serious drama - with amusing
results.
Voted
# 35
of the
Top 100 Sci-Fi
Movies
of all time
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