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Cast | Deleted Scene | Media Mentions | News | Notes
The hot-line suspense comedy
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me.
Cast | Deleted Scene | Media Mentions | News
| Notes
The hot-line suspense comedy
| Character | Actor |
| G/C Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove | Peter Sellers |
| Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson | George C. Scott |
| Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper | Sterling Hayden |
| Col. 'Bat' Guano | Keenan Wynn |
| Maj. T.J. 'King' Kong | Slim Pickens |
| Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky | Peter Bull |
| Lt. Lothar Zogg | James Earl Jones |
| Miss Scott | Tracy Reed |
| Mr. Staines | Jack Creley |
| Lt. H.R. Dietrich | Frank Berry |
| Adm. Randolph | Robert O'Neil |
| Lt. W.D. Kivel | Glen Beck |
| Frank | Roy Stephens |
| Capt. G.A. 'Ace' Owens | Shane Rimmer |
| Burpelson AFB Defense Team member | Hal Galili |
| Lt. B. Goldberg | Paul Tamarin |
| Burpelson AFB Defense Team member | Laurence Herder |
| Gen. Faceman | Gordon Tanner |
| Burpelson AFB Defense Team member | John McCarthy |
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George from his book 'Red
Alert'
An alternate ending scene was filmed involving a huge custard pie fight between everyone in the war room. Buck catches the Russian Ambassador taking pictures with a spy camera and orders him strip searched. He grabs a pie and throws it at him hitting the president who falls over. Buck orders a massive retaliation and soon everyone is involved in throwing pies. Soon the whole room and everyone in it is covered in custard. Meanwhile Dr. Strangelove falls out of his wheelchair and it rolls away. He can't get back in and tries to kill himself with a gunshot and his other hand stops him. The loud bang makes everyone stop and Buck comes to his rescue. Now the president and the Ambassador are making a castle out of the custard and Strangelove thinks they have snapped from the stress and lost their minds. Buck says Strangelove is now in charge.
Jan Harlen, Kubrick's brother-in-law, says the footage is in a canister on his desk and would never be released while he was alive as per Kubrick's demands. To me this means that when he dies someone else in the family will release it, otherwise why would he save it for decades and not have burned it years ago?
31 references
| A&E Stand Up Comedy Special (2003) | A female comedian said one time when she was bombing she felt like she should be in a Sterling Hayden movie. |
| AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (1998) | #26 of all time. |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies 10th Anniversary (6/20/07) | #39 of all time, dropping 13. |
| AFI 100 Years...100 Quotes (6/05) | #64 - "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" |
| At the Movies (2001) | Roger Ebert and Jeff Greenfield mentioned seeing Dr. S in 12/63 |
| Batchelor & Alexander (2003-6) | First played clips and music from Dr. S for political coverage 7/31/03. Batchelor periodically played them. |
| Becker (2000) | In one episode a guy in a restaurant calls Becker "Dr. Strangelove." |
| The Bonnie Hunt Show (2/4/09) | John Cleese said Dr. Strangelove is the greatest serious comedy. |
| Bowfinger (1999) | One of the Mexicans says, "Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick, Clockwork." |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | Alex is injected with Serum 114 a reference to the transponder number in the bomber. |
| Futurama (1999-01) | 1. A Big Piece Of Garbage (5/99) ends
with "We'll meet again". 2. Roswell that Ends Well (12/01) has graffiti similar to that found on nuclear bombs. |
| King of the Hill (2004) | The 4/18/04 episode was "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Alamo". |
| Manhattan Project (1986) | Has a line about Dr. Strangelove. |
| Phineas and Ferb (7/12/08) | Traffic Cam Caper has a Dr. Strangelove War Room. |
| The PJs (1999) | In one episode a guy rides a giant cigarette to the ground like a bomb. |
| Powerade (2001) | An ad features a Dr. Strangelove clip of Peter Sellers as Strangelove from the end of the film. |
| Precious Images (1986) | Features clips from the film. |
| Raising Arizona (1987) | In a gas station written on the door are the letters "POE" and underneath that "OPE" + "CRM" or "Purity of Essence" |
| Retroplex Ad (10/07) | w/Dr. Strangelove Clip |
| Rush (1984) | In the music video "Distant Early Warning" a child rides a missile out of a bomber and flies around on it. |
| The Simpsons (1993-99) | 1. "$pringfield (Or How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" 12/93 - parody of title. 2. "Homer the Vigilante" 1/94 Homer wears a cowboy hat and rides a bomb to the ground. 3. "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" 11/95 has a war room under Springfield with Dr. Frink as Dr. Strangelove, colonel as Buck Turgidson. Bob whistles "We'll Meet Again". 4. "You Only Move Twice" 3/96 has a doomsday device. 5. "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" 1/99 & "Mom and Pop Art" 4/99 the family rides an atom bomb to its target in the intro. |
| Strangelove (1990s) | A band that takes their name from the film. |
| Stripperella (2003) | In "You Only Lick Twice" when bombing Queen Clitoris' island there is a cowboy riding a bomb down. |
| The Survivors (1983) | Has a line that is the same as the Maj Kong survival kit line. |
| The War Room (1993) | Documentary about getting Clinton elected. |
| Who is Cletis Tout? (2001) | "K as in Kubrick" with Dr. Strangelove poster in video store. |
9/11/08
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There will be a restored print at the Junction on Cambridge, England
9/24/08
Cineric Deploys da Vinci's Revival To Restore "Dr. Strangelove"
11/20/06
The Revival toolset allows Cineric to scan material directly from the original
camera negative at 4K resolution and correct extensive aging issues within the
content, including shrinkage, dust, noise, color timing shifts, and flicker.
"Revival has given us the ability to restore both of
these films to pristine quality at optimal efficiency," said Chip
Wilkinson, director of development, Cineric. "Its open architecture has
allowed us to interface all of our existing systems and instantly transfer data
at high speeds within all pieces of equipment in the facility, greatly improving
the speed at which we are able to complete the projects."
Revival is a complete motion picture image restoration system
designed to handle everything from heavy-duty restoration to digital remastering.
The system offers complete functionality, including deFlicker and dust, stain,
blotch, dirt, and grain noise removal. An automatic mode analyzes and processes
images without operator assistance, while Revival's interactive mode enables
manual restoration of individual sequences and gives users the ability to go
through film frame-by-frame to make adjustments, which is important when working
with dated and worn footage. Both modes were utilized in Cineric's restoration
work on the two films, allowing colorists to achieve the highest quality result
at optimized speed.
In "Dr. Strangelove," artists had to use a
fine-grain master made from the original negative that was not perfectly steady.
Therefore, they needed to perform a large amount of stabilization and relied
heavily on Revival's useful Stabilization tool.
Released 1/29/64, filmed in 35mm, full screen 1.33 : 1, Columbia Pictures
Filmed in Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England.
Budget was around $1.8 million and grossed a little over $9 million.
In the opening credits there is a mistake: "Base on the book" instead of 'based'.
Peter Sellers was also to pay Maj. T.J. "King" Kong, but he fell out of the cockpit set and broke his leg and the role went to Slim Pickens instead.
Was to premiere12/12/63, but following John F. Kennedy's assassination on 11/22, it was pushed back to 1964.
14th Greatest Film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
#3 on AFI's list of the 100 greatest comedies.
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