Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
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- PG
- 1h 35min
- Comedy, War
- 29 Jan 1964 (USA)
- Movie
- Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 7 nominations.
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Cast verified as complete
Peter Sellers | ... |
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
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George C. Scott | ... |
Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
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Sterling Hayden | ... |
Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
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Keenan Wynn | ... |
Col. 'Bat' Guano
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Slim Pickens | ... |
Maj. 'King' Kong
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Peter Bull | ... |
Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
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James Earl Jones | ... |
Lt. Lothar Zogg
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Tracy Reed | ... |
Miss Scott
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Jack Creley | ... |
Mr. Staines
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Frank Berry | ... |
Lt. H.R. Dietrich
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Robert O'Neil | ... |
Adm. Randolph
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Glenn Beck | ... |
Lt. Kivel
(as Glen Beck)
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Roy Stephens | ... |
Frank
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Shane Rimmer | ... |
Capt. 'Ace' Owens
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Hal Galili | ... |
Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
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Paul Tamarin | ... |
Lt. Goldberg
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Laurence Herder | ... |
Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
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Gordon Tanner | ... |
Gen. Faceman
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John McCarthy | ... |
Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
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Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Dan Cressey | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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John Doye | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Peter Evans | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Chick Fowles | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Victor Harrington | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Bob Head | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Bill Hibbert | ... |
Computer Room Officer (uncredited)
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George Holdcroft | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Fred Machon | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Joe Phelps | ... |
General in War Room (uncredited)
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Peter Roy | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Jeff Silk | ... |
Advisor in War Room (uncredited)
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Reg Thomason | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Burnell Tucker | ... |
Mandrake's Aide (uncredited)
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Martin Voss | ... |
War Room Aide (uncredited)
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Directed by
Stanley Kubrick |
Written by
Stanley Kubrick | ... | (screenplay) & |
Terry Southern | ... | (screenplay) & |
Peter George | ... | (screenplay) |
Peter George | ... | (based on the book: "Red Alert" by) |
Produced by
Stanley Kubrick | ... | producer |
Victor Lyndon | ... | associate producer |
Lee Minoff | ... | executive producer (uncredited) |
Music by
Laurie Johnson | ... | (music) |
Cinematography by
Gilbert Taylor | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
Anthony Harvey | ... | film editor |
Editorial Department
Geoffrey Fry | ... | assembly editor |
Ray Lovejoy | ... | assistant editor |
Roy Benson | ... | assistant editor (uncredited) |
Production Design by
Ken Adam |
Art Direction by
Peter Murton |
Makeup Department
Stuart Freeborn | ... | makeup artist (as Stewart Freeborn) |
Barbara Ritchie | ... | hairdresser |
Production Management
Clifton Brandon | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Eric Rattray | ... | assistant director |
Michael Klaw | ... | second assistant director: locations (uncredited) |
Art Department
Ken Barley | ... | apprentice plasterer (uncredited) |
Tomi Ungerer | ... | poster artist (uncredited) |
Sound Department
John Aldred | ... | dubbing mixer |
Richard Bird | ... | recordist |
John Cox | ... | sound supervisor |
Leslie Hodgson | ... | sound editor |
David de Wilde | ... | sound effects editor (uncredited) |
Special Effects by
Wally Veevers | ... | special effects |
Alan Bryce | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig | ... | special effects advisor (uncredited) |
Brian Gamby | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Garth Inns | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Mike Shaw | ... | special effects (uncredited) |
Visual Effects by
Vic Margutti | ... | travelling matte |
Jim Body | ... | visual effects camera operator (uncredited) |
Bob Cuff | ... | matte painter (uncredited) |
Doug Ferris | ... | matte camera (uncredited) / matte painter (uncredited) |
Alan Maley | ... | visual effects artist (uncredited) |
Stunts
Alan Stuart | ... | stunt double: Peter Sellers (uncredited) |
Camera and Electrical Department
Bernard Ford | ... | camera assistant |
Kelvin Pike | ... | camera operator |
Wally Byatt | ... | focus puller (uncredited) |
Bob Penn | ... | still photographer (uncredited) |
Michael Walter | ... | key grip (uncredited) |
Costume and Wardrobe Department
Bridget Sellers | ... | wardrobe |
Script and Continuity Department
Pamela Carlton | ... | continuity |
Additional Crew
John Crewdson | ... | aviation advisor (as Capt. John Crewdson) |
Jean Bernard | ... | pilot: outside bomber views (uncredited) |
Pablo Ferro | ... | main title design: Ferro, Mohammed & Schwartz, Inc. (uncredited) |
Alan Stuart | ... | body double: Peter Sellers (uncredited) |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Columbia Pictures Corporation (1964) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Columbia Pictures Proprietary (1964) (Australia) (theatrical)
- Columbia Pictures (1964) (United States) (theatrical)
- Columbia Films (1964) (France) (theatrical)
- Columbia Films (1964) (Belgium) (theatrical)
- Columbia Film (1964) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Kamera (1964) (Norway) (theatrical)
- Columbia Films (1964) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Columbia C.E.I.A.D. (1964) (Italy) (theatrical)
- Columbia (1964) (Argentina) (theatrical)
- Columbia Pictures (1964) (Japan) (theatrical)
- Producciones Cinematográficas Españolas Falcó & Cía. (PROCINES) (1966) (Spain) (theatrical)
- Vesna Film (1967) (Slovenia) (theatrical)
- Vesna Film (1967) (Yugoslavia) (theatrical)
- Columbia-Warner Distributors (1974) (Portugal) (theatrical)
- Columbia-Bavaria Filmgesellschaft m.b.H. (1964) (West Germany) (theatrical)
- Columbia-Warner Filmes de Portugal (1974) (Portugal) (theatrical)
- Fathom Events (2016) (United States) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Neue Visionen Filmverleih (2006) (Germany) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Park Circus (2014) (France) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Park Circus (2019) (France) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Park Circus (2021) (United Kingdom) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Seven Films (2017) (Greece) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Sony Pictures Repertory (1994) (United States) (theatrical)
- Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) (2001) (Sweden) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Warner-Columbia Films (1981) (Finland) (theatrical)
- Warner-Columbia Filmverleih (1987) (West Germany) (theatrical) (re-release)
- Cinema Club (2000) (United Kingdom) (VHS)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2002) (Australia) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2003) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001) (Netherlands) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001) (United States) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2001) (United States) (VHS)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2002) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (2004) (United States) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (1994) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (1997) (United States) (VHS)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (1999) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (1999) (United States) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (1999) (United States) (VHS)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (Italy) (VHS)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (2000) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Columbia TriStar Home Video (2000) (United States) (DVD)
- Egmont Entertainment (1999) (Finland) (DVD)
- Emerald (2013) (Argentina) (DVD)
- Epoca (Argentina) (VHS)
- Gaumont/Columbia TriStar Home Video (2001) (France) (DVD)
- HBO Max (2020) (United States) (video) (VOD)
- Madman Entertainment (2016) (Australia) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Mainostelevisio (MTV3) (1990) (Finland) (tv)
- Nordisk Film (1999) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Nordisk Film (2001) (Sweden) (DVD)
- RCA (II) (1983) (United States) (video) (CED VideoDisc)
- RCA / Columbia Pictures Video (1987) (United Kingdom) (VHS)
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1982) (United States) (VHS) (Betamax)
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1983) (United States) (VHS) (Betamax)
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1984) (United States) (VHS)
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1985) (United States) (VHS) (pan and scan)
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (1987) (United States) (VHS) (pan and scan)
- RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- RCA/Columbia-Hoyts Home Video (Australia) (VHS)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2005) (Australia) (DVD)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (Blu-ray)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2021) (Germany) (Ultra HD Blu-ray)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2005) (Finland) (DVD)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (Blu-ray)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2020) (Netherlands) (Ultra HD Blu-ray) (Columbia Classics Collection)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (Sweden) (Blu-ray)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2007) (United States) (DVD)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2008) (United States) (DVD)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2009) (United States) (Blu-ray)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2012) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2014) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (2020) (United States) (Ultra HD Blu-ray) (Columbia Classics collection)
- Sony Pictures Television International (2005) (United States) (tv) (syndication)
- Sony Pictures Television (2002) (United States) (tv) (syndication)
- The Criterion Channel (2020) (United States) (tv) (digital)
- The Criterion Collection (1992) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- The Criterion Collection (2016) (United States) (Blu-ray)
- The Criterion Collection (2016) (United States) (DVD)
- Universal Pictures (2005) (Sweden) (DVD)
- Video Collection International (2000) (United Kingdom) (VHS) (through)
- Warner Home Video (1999) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (United States) (VHS)
- Warner Home Video (2000) (United States) (DVD)
- Warner Home Video (2001) (United States) (DVD)
- Yleisradio (YLE) (2009) (Finland) (tv)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- British Oxygen (the producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of)
- Ferro, Mohammed & Schwartz (main title by)
- Institut Geographique National (location filming)
- Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company (the producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of)
- Motion Picture Association (MPA)
- Post Logic Studios (digital film mastering)
- Solartron Electronics (the producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of)
- Telephone (the producers gratefully acknowledge the assistance of)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, 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. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson's wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what's going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have an as yet unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. "King" Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can't make it to his intended target. Written by Huggo |
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Taglines | The comedy classic from celebrated director STANLEY KUBRICK See more » |
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Parents Guide | View content advisory » |
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Budget | $1,800,000 (estimated) |
Did You Know?
Trivia | Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55% of the film's budget. Stanley Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six". See more » |
Goofs | Towards the end of the film, when Strangelove is fighting with his renegade right hand over control of his wheelchair and punches it several times out of frustration, the Russian Ambassador (Peter Bull) clearly corpses (laughs) at Peter Sellers' performance and then quickly regains his composure. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into Hai-Kubrick (1999). See more » |
Soundtracks | Try a Little Tenderness See more » |
Crazy Credits | The screenplay title is incorrectly spelled. It reads: 'Base' on the book "Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement about the making of the film. See more » |
Quotes |
President Merkin Muffley:
Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. See more » |