Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb [2x DVD9] (1964)

Storyline: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, he believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr…

IMDB Info: 8.6/10 from 191,624 users Top 250 #34 | Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 4 nominations

Country: USA
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release Date: 29 January 1964 (USA)
Time: 91 min
Languages: English, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitle: German, English, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish, Czech, Turkish, Hungarian
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast:

Peter Sellers … Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott … Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden … Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper
Keenan Wynn … Col. 'Bat' Guano
Slim Pickens … Maj. 'King' Kong
Peter Bull … Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
James Earl Jones … Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed … Miss Scott
Jack Creley … Mr. Staines
Frank Berry … Lt. Dietrich
Robert O'Neil … Adm. Randolph
Glenn Beck … Lt. Kivel (as Glen Beck)
Roy Stephens … Frank
Shane Rimmer … Capt. 'Ace' Owens
Hal Galili … Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member

Special Features:

"No Fighting in the War Room or: Dr. Strangelove and the Nuclear Threat": new documentary including interviews with Bob Woodward, Robert McNamara, Roger Ebert, and Spike Lee
"Best Sellers: Peter Sellers Remembered"
Interview with Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under President Johnson
Collectible scrapbook with original production photos and an essay written by Roger Ebert
Because this movie was originally shot using various aspect ratios, the proportions of the screen image will change periodically throughout the movie. This transfer (with its changing aspect ratio) was approved by director Stanley Kubrick himself
Featurette: "The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove"
Featurette: "Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove"
Original Split-Screen Interview with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
Original advertising Gallery
Talent Files (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones)