Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Burpelson Airforce Base paranoid Brigadier Jack D. Ripper believes that the Soviets are plotting to poison American citizens by fluoridating their water supplies. He is capable of deploying a nuke attack against the Soviet Union through a backdoor mechanism without being aware of his superiors including General Buck Turgidson (chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff) and President Merkin Mufley. Ripper is the only one who knows how to recall B-52 bombers. He has also shut down communications to Burpelson to prevent this attack. Ripper is currently holding RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, a British exchange officer. He believes he has the codes if he only can get a message out to the outside. Key personnel at the Pentagon War Room include Muffley and Turgidson as well as a nuclear scientist and advisor, Dr. Strangelove (an ex-Nazi) discussing ways to prevent or minimize the impact of the Soviet attack. Muffley, against Turgidson’s wishes, brings the Soviet Ambassador Alexi De Sadesky to the War Room and gets his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov on the hotline to tell him about what’s happening. Americans are shocked to discover that Soviets possess a yet unknown Doomsday Device which can be used to explode if one of their targets is hit. While Ripper and Mandrake, and others in the War Room, try to work out the situation, Major T.J. Kong (one of the B52 bomber pilots) is focused on his own goals. He will deploy his bomb wherever he can, on enemy soil, if he fails to reach his target. –Huggo
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden
Country: United Kingdom, United States
