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Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

Call Number

  • BLU-RAY COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Blu-ray special edition.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Tracy Reed, James Earl Jones.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (95 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (20 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 16 cm) + 2 sheets (4 pages ; 23 cm) + 1 miniature booklet (5 cm)

Audience

MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, some violent content, sexual humor and mild language.

Summary

"Stanley Kubrick's painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general; the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchair bound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a genuinely subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch black ironist."--Container.

Notes

Based on the book "Red alert" by Peter George.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.

Special features: Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio ; 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, on whose novel, Red Alert, the film is based ; 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.

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