Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
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New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2020].
ISBN
9786318271042, 631827104X
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Published
New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2020].
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9786318271042, 631827104X
UPC
715515243711, 00715515243711

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
General Note
Based on the book "Red alert" by Peter George.
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Dolby digital 5.1, wide screen 1.66:1.
General Note
Essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1994 article by screenwriter Terry Southern on the making of the film in container.
General Note
Features: new interviews with Stanley Kubrick scholars Mick Broderick and Rodney Hill, archivist Richard Daniels, cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton, camera operator Kelvin Pike, and David George, son of Peter George; excerpts from a 1966 audio interview with Kubrick, conducted by physicist and author Jeremy Bernstein; four short documentaries about the making of the film, the sociopolitical climate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry of Kubrick; interviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. Scott; excerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC's Today show; trailers.
Creation/Production Credits
Film editor, Anthony Harvey ; director of photography, Gilbert Taylor, BSC ; music, Laurie Johnson.
Participants/Performers
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens.
Description
"Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson's wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what's going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have an as yet unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. "King" Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can't make it to his intended target" --,IMDB.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
For private home use only.
Language
Closed-captioned.
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DVD

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kubrick, S., Sellers, P., Scott, G. C., Hayden, S., & Bryant, P. (2020). Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (Special edition.). Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stanley Kubrick et al.. 2020. Dr. Strangelove, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. New York, NY: Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Stanley Kubrick et al.. Dr. Strangelove, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb New York, NY: Criterion Collection, 2020.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Kubrick, S., Sellers, P., Scott, G. C., Hayden, S. and Bryant, P. (2020). Dr. strangelove, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Special edn. New York, NY: Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kubrick, Stanley, et al. Dr. Strangelove, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Special edition., Criterion Collection, 2020.

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