Comedy · War
Dr. Strangelove
Avg rating 9.0 / My rating TBC
1964 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
- Comedy
- War Film
- Auteur Cinema
- Classical Hollywood
An American general locks himself in his office and sets a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in motion. In the Pentagon's War Room, a President, his advisers and a Soviet ambassador scramble to contain the crisis. Kubrick plays the Cold War's most frightening premise as deadpan satire.
Film info
- Runtime
- 1h 35m · 95 min
- IMDb
- 8.3 / 10 (549,187 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 98% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 97 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.1 / 10 (audience, 6,355 votes)
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Full cast and crew
- Stanley KubrickDirector
- Peter SellersActoras Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
- George C. ScottActoras General 'Buck' Turgidson
- Sterling HaydenActoras Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
- Keenan WynnActoras Colonel Bat Guano
- Slim PickensActoras Major "King" Kong
- Laurie JohnsonComposerLJ
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