Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - The Criterion Collection

STANLEY KUBRICK's painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter PETER SELLERS (The Pink Panther) plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (The Killing's STERLING HAYDEN); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchairbound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a genuinely subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.

Bonus Features:

• Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• Alternate 5.1 surround soundtrack
• New interviews with Stanley Kubrick scholars Mick Broderick and Rodney Hill;
• archivist Richard Daniels; cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton;
• camera operator Kelvin Pike; and David George, son of Peter George, on whose
• novel Red Alert the film is based
• Excerpts from a 1965 audio interview with Kubrick, conducted by Jeremy
• Bernstein
• Four short documentaries from 2000, about the making of the film, the sociopolitical
• climate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry of
• Kubrick
• Interviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. Scott
• Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC's Today show
• Trailer
• PLUS: An essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1962 article by screenwriter
• Terry Southern on the making of the film

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