Dr. Strangelove - eller Hvordan jeg lærte at glemme mine bekymringer og elske bomben (1964) UK, USA
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Director:Stanley Kubrick
Studio:Columbia Pictures
Writer:Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
Rating:8.4 (436.948 votes)
Rated:PG
Date Added:2020-06-17
Awards:Nominated for 4 Oscars
Genre:Comedy
IMDb:0057012
Duration:95
Aspect Ratio:1.66 : 1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English, Russian
Stanley Kubrick  ...  (Director)
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern  ...  (Writer)
 
Peter Sellers  ...  Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake
George C. Scott  ...  Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden  ...  Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn  ...  Col. 'Bat' Guano
Slim Pickens  ...  Maj. 'King' Kong
Peter Bull  ...  Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
James Earl Jones  ...  Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed  ...  Miss Scott
Jack Creley  ...  Mr. Staines
Frank Berry  ...  Lt. H.R. Dietrich
Robert O'Neil  ...  Adm. Randolph
Glenn Beck  ...  Lt. Kivel (as Glen Beck)
Roy Stephens  ...  Frank
Shane Rimmer  ...  Capt. 'Ace' Owens
Hal Galili  ...  Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
Summary: 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 ...