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D6192 DR. STRANGELOVE (USA, 1964) (Other titles: Dr. [i.e. Docteur] Folamour; Dottor Stranamore)

Credits: director, ; writers, Stanley Kubrick, , . Cast: , George C. Scott, , . Summary: War/science fiction/ set in the contemporary U.S. A in which the President (Sellers) and his military advisers struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after two psychotic generals - U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Hayden) and Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson (Scott) - trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to launch a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because they fear the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (also Sellers), a wheel-chair bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about mankind's future. Identified as a Vietnam War film by Robert Cumbow in Vietnam War films: “…this black-comic slap at military-political thinking and warning of the perils of military brinksmanship is an accidentally appropriate beginning to what became known as the Vietnam Era.”

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