DR. STRANGELOVE: FIRST 10 MINUTES OF THE FILM
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- Nominated for four Academy Awards® including Best Picture (1964), Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy about a group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals who manage to initiate an “accidental” nuclear apocalypse, is horribly frightening, delightfully funny and surprisingly relevant to this day. This is the saga of two psychotic generals: Joint Chief of Staff “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott) and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper (Sterling Hayden), who orders a bomber squadron to attack the USSR, triggering a Soviet secret weapon, the “Doomsday Machine”, a diabolical retaliatory missile system. Peter Sellers portrays a trio of men who attempt to avert this catastrophe: British Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to paranoid Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Muffley, whose best attempt at diverting this disaster depends on convincing a boozed-up Soviet Premier it’s all a silly mistake; and the President’s advisor, Dr. Strangelove, a demented ex-Nazi scientist. Can any one of them possibly save the world?
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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!
YES!
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.
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.
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
“Is it that bad sir?”….”looks like it’s pretty hairy” is one of the greatest line deliveries of all time
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
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 ! 😉
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?
I would have thought the general's name being Jack D. Ripper would have tipped him off 😄
Greenland, eh?
"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!
Anyone else notice the voice he is conversing with? That is a young James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself! ❤
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.
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.
@@stevepowsinger733 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.
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
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..."
Yes! And I just noticed that is a young James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself! ❤
Gentleman, there's no fighting in here!, This is the War Room!!
One of my top ten favorite movies of all time.
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.
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
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.
"Oh hell". The standard British reaction to a war
I bet that's how King George III reacted to the Revolutionary War. Lol.
Brits are known for understatements 😅 Zulu is another favorite ❤
Think of this. The B52 is one of few actors from this film that's still alive.
And James Earl Jones
@@worldofhunter1636 Not any more, alas.
@@lesliemacmillan9932 I know...... I know...... 😔
This will forever be one of my favorites.
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.
Dude your mom's hot
🚬💣👽💩🚲🎣🇺🇸
I live right next to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado Springs Colorado USA
@@stevepowsinger733 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.
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.
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.
Yes this is something I noticed too. Comedies where characters take themselves seriously tend to be very funny
I love how Major Kong gets his cowboy hat out of the safe and the way he says “Rooskies.”
Yes! And that's a young James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself ❤
@ Exactly. 👍
Underrated beginning of the film ...
WHY this film, and Stanley himself,
have never received a Oscar award ?
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.
This film packs more genius than you can shake a proverbial stick at.
"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 British are coming!
The British are coming!
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.
Sterling Hayden was a great actor. Loved his work
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?
Fail-Safe was based off the same material. It was a serious movie, very good.
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!
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
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.
This is an absolutely brilliant film.
Gentlemen you can't fight in here, this is the war room!
The scenes inside the B-52 cockpit were more than real. I don't know how Kubrick gained so much knowledge of what would go on in case of an actual war mission, but its scary. All the scenes inside the plane were scary in their realism.
yeah, when the CIA got wind of the flim and saw the interior of the B-52, they interrogated the set crew! they were told, they got it out of a magazine. the CIA stayed on the set until the end of its making.
I sat in a cockpit of a B52 at the Chanute air Museum in Rantoul Illinois years ago. It was small and cramped.
I thought of this movie when I was there.
The opening sequence and especially the music, was imprinted on my brain as a kid.❤
He (and others) went to an airshow where a B50 was open for viewing, then repeatedly went through it, memorising as much as he could on each pass, and once outside noted it down in a notebook. This was then married to the official photographs released by the Air Force and suppliers of the B52 to provide the locations and type of kit.
As to the processes, again a number of people asked different questions on each pass. It should be pointed out, some of the parts - the message encryption systems, look nothing like the service kit, but they tell the story.
Some of the technology and process around authentication, in some respects (not all) was no different from the German Fighter control systems of the Second World War where authentication was provided to the messages from ground stations to airborne crews, which was public knowledge in the 60's: but that's another story.
When there was a concern raised about how much he had right, and the thoughts turned to espionage, he was able to tell them exactly how he did it, at which point there was little they or anyone else could do.
@@hypergolic8468 Speaking of encryption machines, there was no such machine as a CRM-114. Perhaps it was made up because the real ones were super secret.
@@danielcobbins8861 Absolutely agree, as I said it was more a creation of Hollywood and imagination than reality, but there's most definitely a shed of truth to some of the basics.
The Germans developed a system as the RAF were controlling German night fighter formations so effectively vocally. The RAF flew Wellington bombers as airborne command posts with German speakers, who would send the fighters all over.The German system to overcome that, printed a target onto a paper strip with a code to encrypt it, which was very impressive as it was an airborne printer and decryption system. More impressive was that the RAF were able to break it in short order.
That said, when you become as old as myself, there's no greater laugh in life to find what was super secret in your youth, is now in museums with absolutely fantastic descriptions about how it worked 🤣🤣😂😂. I must stress I'm nothing do with the USAF.
Ultimately Daniel, I think (or hope) we'd both agree its still an outstanding film.
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 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.
This is a genius idea. Give us the first 10 minutes for free and leave us wanting more. Absolutely ingenious
My favorite film always and forever, love every single frame of it. Kubrick was a freakin genius.
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
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 Movies of all times and Dimensions😉✌🏼
"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when..."
Peter Sellers is just amazing in this movie.
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.
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
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.
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.
Yes! And that is a young James Earl Jones, Darth Vader himself ❤
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.
Sellers RP accent is the best part of this movie it’s so ridiculous 😂
In the 80s I once watched this in a double bill with Blazing Saddles . Slim Pickens was perfect in both .
This was my father's favorite film, and I have always loved it ever since the first time he showed me it in 2005. Back in 2020, I found out even more about this film. At timestamp 1:21, a previously lost media group of musician known as: "Panchiko" sampled this song, and I had been searching for this song for awhile only to realize that it was sampled by one of my family tree's favorite films. If any of you have not heard of this band, I would blissfully reccomend you to check them out. They are one of the best artists i've ever heard of, and the mysterious vibe and backstory of them make listening to their music like feeling their music without any interpretation. Its like you automatically understand everything about a piece of modern art, that seemingly mean's a lot less than it actually does.
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.
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.
One of the all-time classics, a black comedy most ingenious.
I wonder about now if Putin has one of them doomsday devices. Maranatha.
I know its supposed to be a comedy but this is a horror movie in my opinion its fucking terrifying. Amazing movie
Check out Fail Safe that came out that same year.
That’s literally what I came here to say: Check out Fail Safe (1964) if you REALLY want to be terrified by nuclear war.
You should watch "Failsafe"
@ Chris billing Horror? Do you always scare so easily? I only find it amusing. And I first I watched it when the Cold War was still a thing.
@@answerman9933 Are you serious? I really hope not. Yes, it is one of the funniest movies ever made. And its subject matter (when removed from the comedy) is the literal destruction of the world and of humanity.
Some people are capable of holding two ideas in their head at once on the same subject.
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".
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
this is one of the BEST movies ever!
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?
Peter Sellers on magnificent form in this film. Genius.
Those IBM mainframes... they put me in a nostalgic mode.
kubrick,david lean and steven spielberg best directors all time.
I joined the U.S. Air Force right out of high school in '65. I think I saw this '64 film in '66 at a base theatre. I loved it then as I do even more now. All these actors are gone now.
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....
Until now
This might be the best motion picture ever made.
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.
The Best Movie ever. Mr. Kubrick knew to do. Peter Sellers is Great; three roles...
Janne Huuhtanen
Turku, Finland
Fun fact: James Earl Jones, Stuart Freeborn and Gilbert Taylor went on for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
This movie has aged brilliantly and gets better every time I watch it. Though I could do without the aging brilliantly 😅
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?
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.
Masterpiece!! ❤️
@Diego Pisfil Very much in agreement with that statement, as well as under Sony
Diego Pisfil indeed, columbia makes the best movies out of any movie company.
Everything Kubrick did was GENIUS
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.
I completely forgot about the characters cause it's so cool seeing the old computers in the background in action
James Earl Jones already had that voice.
Mandrake! Ripper had to do nothing else but just say that to get me laughing! I feel this movie was Peter Sellers' high point.
Kubrick's best film, along with Sterling Hayden's best role.
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!
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.
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?
This and The Great Dictator are my standout favourite satires. The similarities are there; great comedy actors Sellers & Chaplin, b&w with silent / non dialogue scenes, satire on the madness of war and insanity inhumanity of leaders. IMO greatest films ever made.
What remarkable to me is that upon rewatching it, two things become clear:
1) The opening description of what we learn is the “Doomsday Device” gives away the game right there and the audience doesn’t even realize it. It’s a great misdirect.
2) Most importantly, General Ripper is exactly right when he says “There’s no way anyone can stop this now.” Once he gives the order, it’s done. There’s no way to stop it. Every decision afterwards is wrong, however well-intended. Nothing can be done about the attack.
Well, if the Russians had shot the plane down instead of just damaging it, it wouldn’t have been able to drop its bomb on the missile base and the doomsday device wouldn’t have been triggered.
@@adamesd3699 "You've just got to get that plane, Dmitri. Dmitri, I'm sorry they're jamming your radar, and flying so low, but it's initiative."
@@danielcobbins8861 Takes me back to movie night in college. Practically memorized that movie.
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.
*¡still enjoying 59 years later at 8:01 pm Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday, 31 January 2023!*
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”.
that refueling's too hot for youtube
"Mandrake! It looks like we're in a shooting war!"
"Oh, hell."
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.
An all-time favorite classic.
Is it crazy that KC-135 tankers still refuel B-52s today?
Mid 20th century technology holding it together! Even the house I lived in needed shaking up after almost 60 years...
Great movie! Probably watched it 100 times!
Jack D Ripper is his name lmao
In all the times I've watched this film, about ten times, aswell as countless youtube clips I've never caught that joke before. I literally just facepalmed after reading your comment.
@@AM-xh9iq what's the joke?
@@sumedhvaidya3019 Jack the Ripper. Nickname for a notorious, never identified, and brutal late 19th century London serial murderer thought to be linked to 5 murders.
@@jkorshak got it👍 also can you tell me why is everyone laughing at the "redcoats are coming" line?
@@sumedhvaidya3019 The joke is layered. The Soviets were often called "The Reds." Red being the color of the Soviet flag honoring the blood shed by the working class in its struggle against capitalism. That's one layer.
The "Red Coats" is a term referencing British Army Regulars during the American Revolutionary War who at the time wore red tunics. A rebel colonist named Paul Revere famously road through the night to alert colonial militia across the countryside to the movements of British troops who were seeking to disarm the local militias and capture two rebel leaders. It is understood that Paul Revere actually yelled, "The Regulars are coming!" as he rode but Regulars and Red Coats are basically interchangeable at this point.
The final layer to the joke is General Ripper telling Group Captain Mandrake - an Englishman - the "Red Coats" are coming. Ripper is talking to an Englishman and calling the Soviets "Red Coats," referencing they are "Reds" while speaking to the urgency of facing a hated foe as patriotic colonists once did, referencing Paul Revere's famous warning in the early days of the Revolutionary War concerning the advance of British Army forces. That he is saying this to a British officer punctuates the joke.
That klaxon may be my next ringtone.
great movie but the final 5 minutes are the best laugh