Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

     

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964

Director: Kubrick
Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Genre: Comedy, War
Rating: PG
Runtime: 95 minutes

Arguably the greatest black comedy ever made, Stanley Kubrick's cold-war classic is the ultimate satire of the nuclear age. Dr. Strangelove is a perfect spoof of political and military insanity, beginning when General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden… more »


General "Buck" Turgidson:
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, truth is not always a pleasant thing. But it is necessary now to make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless *distinguishable*, postwar environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.

President Merkin Muffley:
You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!

General "Buck" Turgidson:
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.

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