Same here! Every time I watch it is gets better and better, and it continues to age brilliantly. On second thought, maybe it’s not a good thing it’s aged so well…
I’ several years younger than you and didn’t see it until about 83. At 17 I still didn’t completely understand it. As I grew older and waterbed this many more times, I completely understood it. This movie comedic genius. It stands against anything made since…
@@bradwilliams1691 Fail Safe is one of my favorites but it is a drama where as Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy but I watch Fail Safe every time it shows up on one of the movie channels such as TCM. Both films came out in 1964 as did The Bedford Incident. The prospect of nuclear was hanging over everyone's head. The change of nuclear war has not changed but it really does not dominate the American consciousness as it did in 1964.
The best dark comedy ever filmed. I heard Slim Pickens was never informed by Kubrick that it was a comedy, in order that he play his character as drama. How brilliant was that!?
With Slim, there wasn’t much difference between his on and off-screen persona. He made a film in England and met with the director shortly after arrival. The director marveled that Pickens was already in character. No, that was just Slim being Slim…
Uninformed it was a comedy? You mean like when Slim is leafing through a Playboy, describing what a good time a fella could have in Vegas with the 'survival' kit, substituting his helmet for a cowboy hat, riding the h-bomb down like a bronco buster?
The checklist scene where Slim is reading off the contents of the survival kits was repeated in another movie, "1941" when he was captured and interrogated on the Japaneses sub... his pockets were emptied and the items examined by the Japanese, as Slim Pickens verbally identified them, one by one... shameless plagiarism, and hilarious... lots of plot mechanisms and dialogue lines in that movie were actually stolen from other war movies.
My father in law was in the Air Force and he thought this was a serious movie for about 30 minutes, and then said, "Hey, wait a minute..."He also thought the interior shots of the B-52 were actually made in the roomier KC-135 tanker. Much of the air footage was shot after flying over Greenland. There is an excellent youtube video on how the movie was made.
Well I can tell you personally that on a B-52G there is nowhere near that much room to move around, which has almost no bearing on the quality of the storytelling whatsoever.
Cracks me up when Pickens says he told them about "horsin' around" which alludes to the fact they the crew probably did occasionally report fake attacks to breakup the boredom.
When Nixon bombed Cambodia the day after he saw "Patton" at a private White House screening, my mom sent him a telegram saying he should've watched "Dr Strangelove" instead.
@@stephenpowstinger733 the Cambodians were unable to prevent there territory from being used by the. Communists. They had already been invaded. Nixon did the right thing
True dat (tho' Daniel Day-Lewis is pretty close, tho' not as nuts). But not even NOMINATING Slim Pickens for Best Supporting Actor was a huge travesty. All of those were great performances, but Major Kong is an all-time memorable character in the history of film and he was great in the role .
Stanley Kubrick must have been highly impressed with Peter Sellers when directing him in the movie Lolita because Kubrick cast Sellers to play four parts in Dr. Strangelove. Besides the title role, Sellers was to play Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and B-52 pilot Major T.J."King" Kong, but a severely sprained ankle prevented Sellers from easily moving inside the cramped B-52 set and the part of Major Kong was recast with Slim Pickens. All I can say is thank God that Peter Sellers had a sprained ankle because I can't imagine the movie with anyone other than Slim Pickens riding that bomb to oblivion.
The sexual innuendo of the tanker giving fluids to the bomber while romantic music plays with a melody change at separation is comedic genius. How I came to love the bomb.
The thing with this movie is that it avoids actually being very Over the Top like many Satires, and in many aspects, it's a bit more 'Grounded' Then other Comedies. I think it helps the Edge, as it mostly matches the level of Absurdity in the real world. Which I think was the intention, Kubrick initially wanted the film to be more of a Drama, but seeing just how Absurd the whole situation was, he couldn't help but laugh at it all
I guess you saw _Barry Lyndon._ Possibly the most powerful film I ever saw. And nowadays we have nothing but crap. _Lolita_ is another superb movie. Peter Sellers often shows up as a pretty despicable, manipulative human being, while we tend to have some degree of sympathy by the character interpreted by James Mason. They’re all gone now, including the girl playing Lolita. Makes me sad.
The footage of the "fog shrouded wasteland of the Zokhov Islands" is actually a model done with pieces of rock and strips of cotton made into an arrangement made to look like clouds. It was done at the back of the studio. I talked to the guy who filmed it for Stanley.
@@charleshultquist9233 No, but he did the photographic enlargements of the models of the Orion, Aries, and Moonbus for the SPX composit filming on a machine the 2001 production called the "Sausage Factory". The moon surfaces, Clavius Base, and landing pads were done by others.
yeah, I LOVE this! here he is telling a Major of the British Royal Air Force, that the 'Redcoats' were coming!!! I can't help but think, "Did he ad-lib that line!!?!"
@@expressivism the Big Lebowski is the most perfectly made comedy of all time. Meaning it's makes 100 percent use of it's script. What i'm trying to say here is that the Coens made a movie that uses their script to it's full potential, so while it is incredibly and undeniably funny because it's perfect execution, it's only as funny as the script allows it to be. So while it is the most perfectly made comedy film ever, it isn't the funniest.
Europeans were scared to death of the Big Bear in 1964, and didn't see the humor in the film. But American GIs did. Great movie and Peter Sellers at his best.
The opening narration is unironically terrifying. It just fills you with this palpable feeling of dread knowing that something that horrible could be happening right now under everyone’s nose.
I love the double and triple checking of the code along with the order in the book. "Sir is this a loyalty test?" "We wouldn't get plan R if Washington wasn't a smoking crater already..."
I first saw this film in college. Everyone laughed -- except for those of us studying history and/or political science. There is a lot of truth in this film. Peter Sellers, in addition to playing Mandrake, the President, and the title character, was to play Maj. Kong. But those scenes were to be filmed last, and Sellers was too exhausted. So they brought in Slim Pickens, telling him this was a dramatic film. It actually was intended to be a dramatic thriller, only Kubrick saw the novel did not work as a movie. So he made it a comedy. This is James Earl Jones' film debut.
No. 1 on my list of all time great flicks. Master performances all around. But big shout-out to Sterling Hayden for his "Jack Ripper". One of the all time sicko characters done to satirical perfection.
@@andyadler I’ve read he “broke” his ankle on purpose to get out of playing the 4th part (since it would have been awkward to maneuver with a broken ankle in the confines of a bomber). Then when Kubrick agreed to go with someone else, Sellers’s ankle magically healed.
Kubrick went through the script of Dr. Strange Love trying to see it as a drama, it was too insane, so he made a comedy! When I was a child, my dad worked on a S.A.C. Airforce base, where he loaded B-52 s with nuclear bombs.
@@danielcobbins8861 YEAH!! this is my favorite line of the entire movie! having thought on that line over the years, I can't help but wonder if it was ad-libed! thank you, Daniel, for your help!!!
This film was made after the Cuban Missle Crisis in 1962. Kubrick had to say that there were no real live characters depicted; but Gen Curtis LeMay was over-ruled by JFK and was not allowed to bomb Cuba, as he had proposed. Kennedy knew that if he waited, the Soviets would blink, they did. Peter Sellers got most of the accolades but George C. Scott was perfect in his role too.
Dan Carlin's podcast episode "The Destroyer of Worlds" does a great job of explaining how much pressure JFK was under. He was not only standing againt Lemay, but all of the Joint Chiefs, all of his security advisors and even some of his party members that he let in on his decision making.
@@TheStig505 Thank God JFK was US president then, a towering profile in courage and diplomacy with the Soviet premier; why we all got to live to today. At one point he fumed, "and they call this the 'human' race!"
The greatness of this movie is not only that it is a deep and cutting satire, but, also, on a surface level, it's just a fantastic comedy with amazing comedic acting.
Funnily enough that's the reason the film was financed in the first place. The producers wouldn't allow the film to made unless Sellers was in multiple rolls.
I think he was supposed to play four roles; the pilot of the B-52, but was swapped out for Pickens shortly after he began shooting the airplane scenes when he “fell” of the set and “sprained his ankle”, saying there was too much for one actor
And I just noticed that! I've seen this film several times and this is the first time I caught that. That she's covering her 'naughty bits' with a copy of "Foriegn Affairs" just adds to the insanity.😄😄
In the firefight in the Airbase, Kubrick positions the cameramen just _behind_ the .30 Browning gunner and all other shooters. Notice how this little detail is enough for you to feel that you’re _there,_ involved in the firefight too, laying on the ground defending the Base like the others. Even the bullet impacts are well timed, with a credible flight time! Amazing. Because, in a real firefight you would never film in front of the muzzle. And I never saw this angle repeated in any other movie with the same effect. The man was really gifted!
People must know - and I guess most Americans do - that the Pilot in Command of the B-52 was a well known and eager Rodeo Rider in real life, and won several prizes. This explains the Cowboy hat, riding the bomb, and others.
Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden also starred in a TV special, "A Carol for Another Christmas". This grimly foreboding film aired once during the 1964 holiday season, and was not seen again for almost 50 years. The piece has a very Twilight Zone-like feel, and that comes from Rod Serling's story writing.
Before I saw the film for the first time, I remember, as a kid, stopping off at the Air Force Museum on a vacation with my parents and one sister. They already had a B-36 on display, and next to it was a Mk 17, Mod B hydrogen bomb, from the days before they learned how to downsize them. The Mk 17 had a sign next to it which said it weighed 43,000 pounds with its permanently attached bomb dolly. The bomb bay doors on the B-26 were barely long enough to accommodate the bomb, and the '36 could carry two of them, as I recall. Just seeing a bomb casing that big scared the crap out of this kid. Then I saw this movie. Comedy or not, it could scare the daylights out of you. The B-36 meant business, the Mk17, Mod B meant business, and the B-52s in the movie meant business.
Aint nobody got the Go Code ........YET........sixty years later and still a possibility.....and all of those duck and cover drills I did in grammer school will sure come in real handy....
Never really realized what a great actor Sterling Hayden was. Compare his Gen. Ripper here to his Cpt. McCluskey in The Godfather. There he was dead serious, while here he's at the height of comedy. Yet he looks and sounds the same, while somehow conveying entirely different messages. John Wayne never could've pulled off something like this.
George C Scott was Best in this movie so fckkkn funnny when in war room ..he turns quick.. trips over falls down sorta gets up... fckkkn killed me. When he describes B52 bigbomber uknow comin in low one those bigboys.. . But does he gotta chance? "Hellyaa!..." George c Scott best best actor ever... PATTON !
Fun fact. The setting of this movie is true. Operation Chromedome involved B52s airborne 24/7 at skies of north Atlantic and Pacific ocean from 1960 to 1968, and yes there were multiple accidents involving nuclear armed B52s crashing.
Sterling Hayden's contribution to this ensemble was quite a departure from his usual roles in westerns. Apparently he was nearly typecast in this role, as I discovered some years later reading his novel "Voyage".
The opening narration was by Peter Capell. You see him preside over the court-martial in Paths of Glory and in a very brief scene in the original Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
@@jst7714 He looks more like Kissinger. And I'm pretty sure Von Braun didn't talk like that. Neither did Kissinger, but Seller's character comes across more like a demented Kissinger than Von Braun.
Sterling Hayden, (Gen. Ripper!) played the craziest mad general, weirdly he was an actual war hero, with a silver star medal. He probably knew crazy military men like he played. One like that was Gen. LaMay, crazy as a "bag full of rats in a meth lab!" He wanted to use nuclear weapons!
First saw this film around 5 years back. I'm astounded how well it's held up. Politicians and the Generals run around with their hair on fire and with total incompetence, yet the only people with any real honor or know how are the crew of these bombers. And they don't know they've been issued false orders which will see the world erupt in flame.
While my son was stationed at Minot AFB years ago the new base commander ordered a general assembly. He had a few things to say. He started with a clip of General Tergidson ranting about how we had to take care of those Commie bastards. My son, having been a fan of the movie, couldn’t stop laughing. Nobody else in the assembly “got it”. They were all too young. The new colonel then remarked,”I’m glad one of you got it”.
I was an extra on the Willie Nelson movie Honeysuckle Rose, when I met Slim Pickens I asked him if he had a lot of fun on Dr.Strangelove, he said he did but not as much fun as Blazing Saddles
Without question one of the greatest films ever made. At its core is the likelihood that it is failure of the human element that will lead to nuclear annihilation. Despite the end of the Cold War, this is just as true today as it was in 1964, perhaps more so.
I saw this movie when I was 12 years old. No subtitles so I did not understand it. But the music! the images! for months I hummed the tune so not to forget this movie. And then 30 years later I watch something on TH-cam. That music again!! The shock of recognition.
"Not meant to represent any real persons living or dead unless we did not fool you by casting Dr. Strangelove in place of Werner Von Braun or General Jack D. Ripper in place of General Edwin Walker."
When I first saw this as a teenager I liked it. It wasn’t until I was older that I recognized it as one of the best films ever made.
"Peace Is Our Profession"
Same here! Every time I watch it is gets better and better, and it continues to age brilliantly. On second thought, maybe it’s not a good thing it’s aged so well…
Ha ha brilliant!! Way ahead of it's time!!
Well... Stanley Kubric really is one of the best film geniuses in recent history! Glad you like it!
I remember seeing this movie when it premiered in 1964. This movie has never left me. Kubrick knocked it out of the park with this one.
And today, it's more relevant than ever.
I’ several years younger than you and didn’t see it until about 83. At 17 I still didn’t completely understand it.
As I grew older and waterbed this many more times, I completely understood it. This movie comedic genius. It stands against anything made since…
It's actually Peter George book in 1956. Most of Stanley Kubriks movies are based on books!
In my honest opinion, Fail-safe is the better movie.
@@bradwilliams1691 Fail Safe is one of my favorites but it is a drama where as Dr. Strangelove is a black comedy but I watch Fail Safe every time it shows up on one of the movie channels such as TCM. Both films came out in 1964 as did The Bedford Incident. The prospect of nuclear was hanging over everyone's head. The change of nuclear war has not changed but it really does not dominate the American consciousness as it did in 1964.
This movie done in 64. They probably had no idea that these same bombers would still be in use 57 years later.
They didn't know about project Northwood either.
The US Air Force wants their B-52s flying until 2050. That's 100 years since the first ones rolled out of the factory!
Almost impossible to take toys away from the boys.
Not to mention the fuel tankers...
Keep On Keeping On ! 😉
The best dark comedy ever filmed. I heard Slim Pickens was never informed by Kubrick that it was a comedy, in order that he play his character as drama. How brilliant was that!?
With Slim, there wasn’t much difference between his on and off-screen persona. He made a film in England and met with the director shortly after arrival. The director marveled that Pickens was already in character. No, that was just Slim being Slim…
@@garypounder3592 I think that is Mr. Tagert, Slim Pickens' boss.
Uninformed it was a comedy? You mean like when Slim is leafing through a Playboy, describing what a good time a fella could have in Vegas with the 'survival' kit, substituting his helmet for a cowboy hat, riding the h-bomb down like a bronco buster?
The checklist scene where Slim is reading off the contents of the survival kits was repeated in another movie, "1941" when he was captured and interrogated on the Japaneses sub... his pockets were emptied and the items examined by the Japanese, as Slim Pickens verbally identified them, one by one... shameless plagiarism, and hilarious... lots of plot mechanisms and dialogue lines in that movie were actually stolen from other war movies.
Sellers was supposed to play that part as well but faked an injury so Slim Pickens got the part
My father in law was in the Air Force and he thought this was a serious movie for about 30 minutes, and then said, "Hey, wait a minute..."He also thought the interior shots of the B-52 were actually made in the roomier KC-135 tanker. Much of the air footage was shot after flying over Greenland. There is an excellent youtube video on how the movie was made.
Well I can tell you personally that on a B-52G there is nowhere near that much room to move around, which has almost no bearing on the quality of the storytelling whatsoever.
@melomane2010 perhaps with modernization the equipment takes up more room?
"Well boys, looks like this is it. Nucler combat toe to toe with the Rooskies".
As he puts a cowboy hat on.
@@robertthomas5196 Exactly.
One of the best lines of the whole movie.
@@sartainja Every line is a best line. There will be no fighting in the War Room!
Cracks me up when Pickens says he told them about "horsin' around" which alludes to the fact they the crew probably did occasionally report fake attacks to breakup the boredom.
Possibly. But the atmosphere in the Cold War did not have as many pranksters and comedians as today.
@@stephenpowstinger733 True. But I can see where crew members might just pull something like that.
Ironic that Pickens is horsing around at the film's end. He also rode the "horse" backwards. Never saw a rodeo like that.
@@nickpaine True. He was also a legit rodeo star for 20 years begore going into movies.
When Nixon bombed Cambodia the day after he saw "Patton" at a private White House screening, my mom sent him a telegram saying he should've watched "Dr Strangelove" instead.
He didn’t just bomb them he invaded.
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@@stephenpowstinger733 the Cambodians were unable to prevent there territory from being used by the. Communists. They had already been invaded. Nixon did the right thing
BURN!!!
Your mother has class.
Peter Sellers is the greatest actor I have ever seen. No actor invested as much into his roles as he did. A genius.
Surprising that Kubrick never used him in any of his other movies.
@@Inukshuk67 He also acted in Lolita! I recommend you that film too 😉
Peter Sellers was no genius - he was insane.
True dat (tho' Daniel Day-Lewis is pretty close, tho' not as nuts). But not even NOMINATING Slim Pickens for Best Supporting Actor was a huge travesty. All of those were great performances, but Major Kong is an all-time memorable character in the history of film and he was great in the role .
Johnny Depp owes much to the work of genius Peter Sellers
“Is it that bad sir?”….”looks like it’s pretty hairy” is one of the greatest line deliveries of all time
Think of this. The B52 is one of few actors from this film that's still alive.
And James Earl Jones
Peter Sellers was a genius in this movie.
And only played THREE of the main characters himself!
Slim Pickens and Keenan Wynn were pretty great too.
Stanley Kubrick must have been highly impressed with Peter Sellers when directing him in the movie Lolita because Kubrick cast Sellers to play four parts in Dr. Strangelove. Besides the title role, Sellers was to play Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and B-52 pilot Major T.J."King" Kong, but a severely sprained ankle prevented Sellers from easily moving inside the cramped B-52 set and the part of Major Kong was recast with Slim Pickens. All I can say is thank God that Peter Sellers had a sprained ankle because I can't imagine the movie with anyone other than Slim Pickens riding that bomb to oblivion.
Well this movie can come true more soon than we think its really sacrry with the new leader !
He was great, terrific cast. Sterling Hayden was hilarious
Gentleman, there's no fighting in here!, This is the War Room!!
The sexual innuendo of the tanker giving fluids to the bomber while romantic music plays with a melody change at separation is comedic genius. How I came to love the bomb.
The phallic failure of man's madness.
"Try a Little Tenderness" is the name of the song. :)
Three Dog Night released their version of the tune which peaked at number 29 on the US Billboard Top 100 in 1969.
The pipe even appears to go flaccid after it’s done. Genius filmmaking
Yeah and the way the bomber bounces too lol. You know what I mean.
The thing with this movie is that it avoids actually being very Over the Top like many Satires, and in many aspects, it's a bit more 'Grounded' Then other Comedies.
I think it helps the Edge, as it mostly matches the level of Absurdity in the real world. Which I think was the intention, Kubrick initially wanted the film to be more of a Drama, but seeing just how Absurd the whole situation was, he couldn't help but laugh at it all
Nobody on the bomber crew knew that it was a comedy, when they were shooting.
I love Stanley Kubrick and his films.
I wonder if Putin has one of those doomsday devices.
EYE'S WIDE SHUT 🤯🤢
I guess you saw _Barry Lyndon._ Possibly the most powerful film I ever saw.
And nowadays we have nothing but crap.
_Lolita_ is another superb movie. Peter Sellers often shows up as a pretty despicable, manipulative human being, while we tend to have some degree of sympathy by the character interpreted by James Mason.
They’re all gone now, including the girl playing Lolita. Makes me sad.
The footage of the "fog shrouded wasteland of the Zokhov Islands" is actually a model done with pieces of rock and strips of cotton made into an arrangement made to look like clouds. It was done at the back of the studio. I talked to the guy who filmed it for Stanley.
Freaking looks good. Thanks for the info.
Cool!!
Did your friend work on the moon landing sets also?
@@charleshultquist9233 No, but he did the photographic enlargements of the models of the Orion, Aries, and Moonbus for the SPX composit filming on a machine the 2001 production called the "Sausage Factory". The moon surfaces, Clavius Base, and landing pads were done by others.
@@charleshultquist9233 Kubrick was a perfectionist as a director. He shot the moon landing on location.
"Mandrake, come over here! The redcoats are coming!"
yeah, I LOVE this! here he is telling a Major of the British Royal Air Force, that the 'Redcoats' were coming!!! I can't help but think, "Did he ad-lib that line!!?!"
The funniest film of all time. I don't allow a debate on this in my household.
Atticus McFly It's a close second behind The Big Lebowski
@@expressivism the Big Lebowski is the most perfectly made comedy of all time. Meaning it's makes 100 percent use of it's script. What i'm trying to say here is that the Coens made a movie that uses their script to it's full potential, so while it is incredibly and undeniably funny because it's perfect execution, it's only as funny as the script allows it to be. So while it is the most perfectly made comedy film ever, it isn't the funniest.
monty python maybe
you're wrong then.
@Diego Pisfil There's many, but I agree with your comment
Europeans were scared to death of the Big Bear in 1964, and didn't see the humor in the film. But American GIs did. Great movie and Peter Sellers at his best.
One of the greatest works of art ever made.
The opening narration is unironically terrifying. It just fills you with this palpable feeling of dread knowing that something that horrible could be happening right now under everyone’s nose.
I love the double and triple checking of the code along with the order in the book.
"Sir is this a loyalty test?"
"We wouldn't get plan R if Washington wasn't a smoking crater already..."
I love how Major Kong gets his cowboy hat out of the safe and the way he says “Rooskies.”
I first saw this film in college. Everyone laughed -- except for those of us studying history and/or political science. There is a lot of truth in this film.
Peter Sellers, in addition to playing Mandrake, the President, and the title character, was to play Maj. Kong. But those scenes were to be filmed last, and Sellers was too exhausted. So they brought in Slim Pickens, telling him this was a dramatic film.
It actually was intended to be a dramatic thriller, only Kubrick saw the novel did not work as a movie. So he made it a comedy.
This is James Earl Jones' film debut.
Think sellers had a broken ankle and couldn’t get around the plane iirc
@@stevepirie8130 I haven't heard that one. I'm not saying it isn't true, but do you have a source for that?
No. 1 on my list of all time great flicks. Master performances all around. But big shout-out to Sterling Hayden for his "Jack Ripper". One of the all time sicko characters done to satirical perfection.
Such a good movie it’s just so good Stanley you were amazing. I remember watching it for the first time I didn’t want it to end
Favorite Kubrick film, after '2001'. I read Peter Sellers almost played a 4th part. What comedy genius He was!
He was supposed to play Major Kong but couldn't do a convincing Texas accent
@@donaldleyton4977 I think it was also because he broke his ankle and wasn't available for the necessary shooting days.
@@andyadler I’ve read he “broke” his ankle on purpose to get out of playing the 4th part (since it would have been awkward to maneuver with a broken ankle in the confines of a bomber).
Then when Kubrick agreed to go with someone else, Sellers’s ankle magically healed.
Kubrick went through the script of Dr. Strange Love trying to see it as a drama, it was too insane, so he made a comedy! When I was a child, my dad worked on a S.A.C. Airforce base, where he loaded B-52 s with nuclear bombs.
Gotta say, Sterling Hayden is god damn intimidating in this role.
Two can play at that game, soldier!
yeah, and he had to be talked out of retirement to do the part!
@@brinsonharris9816 yeah, and General Riper says to a British officer, "Get over here! The 'Redcoats' are coming."
@@samuelmoulds1016 "Mandrake, in the name of Her Majesty, and the Continental Congress, get over here and feed me that belt, boy."
@@danielcobbins8861 YEAH!! this is my favorite line of the entire movie! having thought on that line over the years, I can't help but wonder if it was ad-libed! thank you, Daniel, for your help!!!
This will forever be one of my favorites.
Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the war room!
This film was made after the Cuban Missle Crisis in 1962. Kubrick had to say that there were no real live characters depicted; but Gen Curtis LeMay was over-ruled by JFK and was not allowed to bomb Cuba, as he had proposed. Kennedy knew that if he waited, the Soviets would blink, they did. Peter Sellers got most of the accolades but George C. Scott was perfect in his role too.
Add Slim Pickens to the list.
Dan Carlin's podcast episode "The Destroyer of Worlds" does a great job of explaining how much pressure JFK was under. He was not only standing againt Lemay, but all of the Joint Chiefs, all of his security advisors and even some of his party members that he let in on his decision making.
@@TheStig505 Thank God JFK was US president then, a towering profile in courage and diplomacy with the Soviet premier; why we all got to live to today. At one point he fumed, "and they call this the 'human' race!"
JFK accurately SURMISED. NO ONE "KNEW"
Interesting fact: the movie was scheduled to be released for a test screening on Nov. 22nd, the day of the Kennedy assassination. Obviously it wasn't.
The greatness of this movie is not only that it is a deep and cutting satire, but, also, on a surface level, it's just a fantastic comedy with amazing comedic acting.
Holy shit, James Earl Jones is in this. I didn't recognize him because he was so young.
Did you think that the Death Star was his *first* WMD (weapon of mass destruction)? Darth Vader had to get his start, somewhere!
He's the bombardier :-)
He featured in another nuclear war film as the Air Force General (codename 'Alice') aboard the Looking Glass aircraft in By Dawn's Early Light
He’s the last living principal player in this film!!! 🥰
Rest in peace, Mr.Jones.
I'm still amazed that opening shot at 0:38 is just some cotton wool in front of a few small rocks. Talk about film-making ingenuity.
Peter Seller played 3 roles in this movie!
Funnily enough that's the reason the film was financed in the first place. The producers wouldn't allow the film to made unless Sellers was in multiple rolls.
I think he was supposed to play four roles; the pilot of the B-52, but was swapped out for Pickens shortly after he began shooting the airplane scenes when he “fell” of the set and “sprained his ankle”, saying there was too much for one actor
@@62Cristoforo yes that is indeed fact, Sellers was supposed to play Major Kong
Fun Fact: The Playboy centerfold girl at 6:38 is the same woman who is General Buck Turgidson's girlfriend later in the movie.
yeah, I like dat!!!
And I just noticed that! I've seen this film several times and this is the first time I caught that. That she's covering her 'naughty bits' with a copy of "Foriegn Affairs" just adds to the insanity.😄😄
Really?
This film packs more genius than you can shake a proverbial stick at.
Till this day there's never been a more romantic start to a motion picture.
After 50 years that stratofortress gave birth to a litter of drones used to bomb the Middle East.
My vote for the single greatest film
One of my favourite opening credits actually, perfectly sums up the film, sexual, hilarious and suttle
subtle*
@@horysmokes3339 subtle like the letter b in subtle
Best black humor, a classic
Black humor lmaoo
@@LeFARaJ It’s genre is literally black humor.
Before everyone became so fucking sensitive, the category was indeed called, "Black Comedy."
Looks more like black and white humor to me
@@zeussx2120 I think it was ment to be dark comedy , according to Robin WIlliams, who said it was the THE dark comedy
In the firefight in the Airbase, Kubrick positions the cameramen just _behind_ the .30 Browning gunner and all other shooters. Notice how this little detail is enough for you to feel that you’re _there,_ involved in the firefight too, laying on the ground defending the Base like the others. Even the bullet impacts are well timed, with a credible flight time! Amazing. Because, in a real firefight you would never film in front of the muzzle. And I never saw this angle repeated in any other movie with the same effect. The man was really gifted!
This is an absolutely brilliant film.
Sterling Hayden was a great actor. Loved his work
People must know - and I guess most Americans do - that the Pilot in Command of the B-52 was a well known and eager Rodeo Rider in real life, and won several prizes. This explains the Cowboy hat, riding the bomb, and others.
Peter Sellers is just amazing in this movie.
One of the greatest Movies of all times and Dimensions😉✌🏼
"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when..."
Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden also starred in a TV special, "A Carol for Another Christmas". This grimly foreboding film aired once during the 1964 holiday season, and was not seen again for almost 50 years. The piece has a very Twilight Zone-like feel, and that comes from Rod Serling's story writing.
Rod Serling was born on Christmas! (And also during Hanukkah.)
I'm hoping TH-cam will be able to post this one.
James Earl Jones already had that voice.
Before I saw the film for the first time, I remember, as a kid, stopping off at the Air Force Museum on a vacation with my parents and one sister. They already had a B-36 on display, and next to it was a Mk 17, Mod B hydrogen bomb, from the days before they learned how to downsize them. The Mk 17 had a sign next to it which said it weighed 43,000 pounds with its permanently attached bomb dolly. The bomb bay doors on the B-26 were barely long enough to accommodate the bomb, and the '36 could carry two of them, as I recall. Just seeing a bomb casing that big scared the crap out of this kid. Then I saw this movie. Comedy or not, it could scare the daylights out of you. The B-36 meant business, the Mk17, Mod B meant business, and the B-52s in the movie meant business.
Fun fact: James Earl Jones, Stuart Freeborn and Gilbert Taylor went on for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
'Saw this as a young kid in the 60's. The scene of Slim Pickens riding the nuke to detonation still unnerves me to this day.
Same exact thing with me. I was a kid and practically traumatized by that scene.
Incredible just how relevant this is to the current times
then: water flouridation
now: 5G and face masks
lmao
War never changes. Only the people.
@@lanskyzxc you say that like water fluoridation isn’t still a thing
@@BoxStudioExecutive i feel like there's more 5g conspiracy theorists these days than fluoridation theorists
They’re still after our precious bodily fluids.
Anyone notice how at 7:36 he opens it to the correct page initially then keeps looking until he returns to the same page?
He opens it to L, then flips back to E and then F.
One of the all-time classics, a black comedy most ingenious.
I wonder about now if Putin has one of them doomsday devices. Maranatha.
My favorite film always and forever, love every single frame of it. Kubrick was a freakin genius.
Despite the disclaimer this was a mostly true story.
Curtis Lemay was going to independently attack the Russians if he determined they were planning to attack.
KISS WHAT!!?!
Making this movie when real life war generals and thermonuclear hawks like Curtis LeMay were in power took balls!
Aint nobody got the Go Code ........YET........sixty years later and still a possibility.....and all of those duck and cover drills I did in grammer school will sure come in real handy....
Never really realized what a great actor Sterling Hayden was. Compare his Gen. Ripper here to his Cpt. McCluskey in The Godfather. There he was dead serious, while here he's at the height of comedy. Yet he looks and sounds the same, while somehow conveying entirely different messages. John Wayne never could've pulled off something like this.
In the 80s I once watched this in a double bill with Blazing Saddles . Slim Pickens was perfect in both .
Back when they had comedy actors playing military people.
My how times have changed.
That's a beauty. Nice observation
Yep. Now it's just the reverse.
I almost was going to argue Jim from the Office but realized he’s not funny
Are you joking?
Sterling Hayden was in the OSS and George C Scott was in the marines for four years.
@@Soonzuh Did George C Scott do stand-up?
Those IBM mainframes... they put me in a nostalgic mode.
George C Scott was Best in this movie so fckkkn funnny when in war room ..he turns quick.. trips over falls down sorta gets up... fckkkn killed me.
When he describes B52 bigbomber uknow comin in low one those bigboys..
. But does he gotta chance? "Hellyaa!..."
George c Scott best best actor ever... PATTON !
In 1964 Doctor Strangelove, Fail Safe, and The Bedford Incident were released.
ived watched several thousands of movies in my 82 years this is top 3. peter sellers should have gotten best actor still pisses me off.
Fun fact. The setting of this movie is true. Operation Chromedome involved B52s airborne 24/7 at skies of north Atlantic and Pacific ocean from 1960 to 1968, and yes there were multiple accidents involving nuclear armed B52s crashing.
A B-47 lost a hydrogen bomb off the coast of Savannah, Ga that is still there.
Sterling Hayden's contribution to this ensemble was quite a departure from his usual roles in westerns. Apparently he was nearly typecast in this role, as I discovered some years later reading his novel "Voyage".
The Best Movie ever. Mr. Kubrick knew to do. Peter Sellers is Great; three roles...
Janne Huuhtanen
Turku, Finland
BBC has banned screening of this film due to aggressive language!!!!
The opening narration was by Peter Capell. You see him preside over the court-martial in Paths of Glory and in a very brief scene in the original Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
this is one of the BEST movies ever!
kubrick,david lean and steven spielberg best directors all time.
None of the characters in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead. Except for Curtis Lemay, that was definitely intentional.
President Merkin Muffley is based on Adlai Stevenson. Dr. Strangelove is allegedly a composite of Werner von Braun, Henry Kissinger and Herman Kahn.
yeah, and Stevenson as President!
That klaxon may be my next ringtone.
Sellers does a pretty good Henry Kissinger impersonation.
Close but no cigar. It was Wernher von Braun, ex Nazi turned USA rocket scientist.
@@jst7714 He looks more like Kissinger. And I'm pretty sure Von Braun didn't talk like that. Neither did Kissinger, but Seller's character comes across more like a demented Kissinger than Von Braun.
@@brucemacmillan7128 The accent is pretty similar to von Braun's.
Edward Teller, the proud father of the H-bomb. The eyebrows tell the tale...and the insanity.
Peter Sellers on magnificent form in this film. Genius.
Sterling Hayden, (Gen. Ripper!) played the craziest mad general, weirdly he was an actual war hero, with a silver star medal. He probably knew crazy military men like he played. One like that was Gen. LaMay, crazy as a "bag full of rats in a meth lab!" He wanted to use nuclear weapons!
*¡still enjoying 59 years later at 8:01 pm Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, 31 January 2023!*
Kubrick's best film, along with Sterling Hayden's best role.
I completely forgot about the characters cause it's so cool seeing the old computers in the background in action
This is a genius idea. Give us the first 10 minutes for free and leave us wanting more. Absolutely ingenious
I feel like those planes should be smoking a cig at the end of the credits.
First saw this film around 5 years back. I'm astounded how well it's held up. Politicians and the Generals run around with their hair on fire and with total incompetence, yet the only people with any real honor or know how are the crew of these bombers. And they don't know they've been issued false orders which will see the world erupt in flame.
I don't want no horsing around on the airplane.
Since watching this film I have sworn off committing preversions
One of the best movies ever
While my son was stationed at Minot AFB years ago the new base commander ordered a general assembly. He had a few things to say. He started with a clip of General Tergidson ranting about how we had to take care of those Commie bastards. My son, having been a fan of the movie, couldn’t stop laughing. Nobody else in the assembly “got it”. They were all too young. The new colonel then remarked,”I’m glad one of you got it”.
This might be the best motion picture ever made.
I was an extra on the Willie Nelson movie Honeysuckle Rose, when I met Slim Pickens I asked him if he had a lot of fun on Dr.Strangelove, he said he did but not as much fun as Blazing Saddles
Isn’t that Playboy centrefold also Buck Turdgidson’s personal secretary? Blast off!
Yup.
To add to the disclaimer, George C. Scott’s character should remind you NOTHING of Curtis LeMay. Absolutely not at all.
Without question one of the greatest films ever made. At its core is the likelihood that it is failure of the human element that will lead to nuclear annihilation. Despite the end of the Cold War, this is just as true today as it was in 1964, perhaps more so.
I saw this movie when I was 12 years old. No subtitles so I did not understand it. But the music! the images! for months I hummed the tune so not to forget this movie. And then 30 years later I watch something on TH-cam. That music again!! The shock of recognition.
You'd have understood it, had it included subtitles?
"Not meant to represent any real persons living or dead unless we did not fool you by casting Dr. Strangelove in place of Werner Von Braun or General Jack D. Ripper in place of General Edwin Walker."
Contaminating a man's precious bodily fluids ain't no laughing matter.
4:41 “Oh hell.”
Dem Rooskis done clobbered Warshington