Fresh
By a whopping margin, this is Kubrick's most radical film and greatest dramatic gamble.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
The hot-line suspense comedy.
1964 · 1h 35m · PG
Comedy, War
Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Overview
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
Director and cast
- Stanley Kubrick Director
- Peter Sellers as Captain Mandrake/Präsident Muffley/Doktor Seltsam
- George C. Scott as General "Buck" Turgidson
- Sterling Hayden as Brigade General Jack D. Ripper
- Keenan Wynn as Colonel Bat Guano
- Slim Pickens as Major "King" Kong
- Peter Bull as Botschafter De Sadesky
- James Earl Jones as Lt. Lothar Zogg
- Tracy Reed as Miss Scott
- Jack Creley Cast
- Frank Berry Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Like most of his work, Stanley Kubrick's deadly black satirical comedy-thriller on cold war madness and its possible effects (1964) has aged well.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Perhaps Kubrick's most perfectly realised film, simply because his cynical vision of the progress of technology and human stupidity is wedded with comedy.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
This landmark movie's madcap humor and terrifying suspense remain undiminished by time.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Fresh
Stanley Kubrick's blackest of black comedies.
Glenn Abel, Hollywood Reporter
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