Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Duration: 01:31:00 U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia Pictures
1964
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:b82d1271-b779-4da0-9073-76e723d18e37 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:31:00
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ? This film came out at a height of paranoia of the nuclear age and the Cold War, right around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis. By presenting the impending doom of the Cold War with humor, it conveys just how absurd the nuclear arms race was in real life. |
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| Published: | 1964 |