Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Loosely based on Peter George's Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (aka Two Hours to Doom), Dr. Strangelove satirized the nuclear scare. The story concerns an unhinged... more
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Initial release date:

  • 1964

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Rating:

PG (USA)

Runtime:

  • 1 h 34 min

Estimated budget:

  • 1,800,000 (US$)

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  • Dr. Strangelove

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the...

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  • The hot-line suspense comedy.

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  • 1 h 34 min

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  • 1,800,000

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  • 1965
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  • 1964
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  • 26
  • 6
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Red Alert

Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book was the basis for Stanley Kubrick's film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Kubrick's film differs significantly from the novel in that it is a comedy. Originally published in the UK as Two...

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  • 26
  • 6
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