Dr. Strangelove (1964) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction! two Filmmakers React! Analysis too!

[@charlesfrancis6894]

I watched Spike Milligan on a chat show talking about Peter Sellers knocking on his door early one morning and when Spike opened the door ,there was Peter naked apart from a bowler hat asking Spike if he knew of a good tailor. Spike Milligan ,Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe formed the "Goons" which was a crazy radio show from the 50s and the chat show was called "Parkinson ".

[@indridcold3762]

Peter Sellers killed it in all three roles in this. Just an all time great.

[@swankybutters8371]

Of all the war movies, in the history of war movies, this is and always will be may favorite. Nothing else comes close... Best movie ever...

[@keithbrown8490]

Production Designer Ken Adam designed the War Room to look like a giant gambling poker table. The two super powers gambling on the outcome of humanity . Ken Adam is best known for the sets he did for many of the 007 movies of the 60's and 70's. He worked with Kubrick again for Barry Lyndon.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Good information

[@lisathuban8969]

My mother saw this when it originally came out in the early 1960's. She didn't normally have a dirty mind, but she told me she was the only person in the theater who realized the opening scene with the planes refueling was a "love" scene, and had to hide her laughter. I have confirmed she is correct, that was definitely the intent. This film has such a dry, dark humor.

[@Docjonel]

Amazing how many people don't connect the romantic music with the scenes of probes entering airplanes and make that connection regarding the sexual symbolism.

[@ebashford5334]

Notice when things seem to be resolved, they show Strangelove lurking back in the dark. He reemerges when war is imminent. He represents the world fighting nuclear war against itself (Strangelove's alien hand syndrome) and thus the insanity of fighting against each other when we all lose.

[@Chivaltic]

"Peace is Our Profession" is not a joke. It's the real motto of Strategic Air Command (or SAC), mentioned in the movie. It was coined by it's founder General Curtis LeMay is late 1940's. LeMay was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force in the 1960's serving under JFK and LBJ administrations. He was in key roles during the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis and the early stages in Vietnam War. I believe General Buck Turgidson is modeled after him.

[@owlcowl]

Actually its General Jack D Ripper who is based more on Curtis LeMay, who was considered the ultimate war hawk and anti-Communist zealot in the upper echelons of the Pentagon at the time. Ironically, he was played by Sterling Hayden, who had been a committed Communist in his youth.

[@001Flange]

Peter Sellers plays even more roles in The Mouse That Roared.

[@michaelaudreson7761]

Seller was a big admirer of Alec Guinness who played 8 roles in Kind Hearts and Coronets. This may have been the start of stars playing multiple parts. Sellers worked with Guinness a couple of times.

[@doktor_ghul]

You want to be truly blown away by Peter Sellers as an actor? Watch BEING THERE. It's eerie as hell how his character just slides into the situations without truly understanding them at all, yet manages to succeed because he really doesn't have a personality, just a face that everyone else projects what they want to see upon. It's outrageous.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Seen it Chauncey Gardner, exceptional

[@NoahSpurrier]

Great movie.

[@sjw5797]

Black and white isn't about just the absence of color. Its an art form all its own, using the medium of light. Good black and white uses light and shadows, smoke, contrast, shades of grey, to create an atmosphere that could never be achieved in color. That's why, even today, black and white remains a choice that directors still make use of, from time to time.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Agreed with you in the recent update bideo

[@randyshoquist7726]

"The strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras." My ATF non-sequitur.

[@hempchimp]

If you rewatch the scene where Major Kong (Pickens) is going down the list of what's in the survival gear and then states ' A fella could have a good time in Vegas...', it has been overdubbed from the original line that you can actually see Pickens say which is the word 'Dallas'. This was made in 1963 and opened in 1964 and the Producers felt that Dallas wasn't proper after the JFK assassination.

[@wratched]

Both Doctor Who and Doctor Strangelove had their premieres delayed by the JFK assassination.

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

Interesting

[@canaisyoung3601]

And the original ending with the pie fight was pretty much cut for the same reason (read: not being in good taste after the JFK assassination).

[@stevev2492]

I heard it was cut because it was too absurd and didn't fit with the rest of the film.@@canaisyoung3601

[@gordonlinton3555]

Enjoyed watching you guys react. Peter Sellers was a very well known character comedian in the UK. Best known acting role was probably 'The Pink Panther' film series, 5 sequels with Sellers playing inspector Clouseau.

[@thunderstruck5484]

All time classic thanks guys so many great performances Sterling Hayden was one of my favorites

[@Elerad]

George C. Scott's elastic face is one of my favorite things about this movie. God his expressions are just brilliant. The huge grin and wild eyes as he describes the planes flying under radar, getting ready to destroy the entire world... oh man. Too much.

[@zer0tzer0]

Peter Sellers was also slated to play Major Kong, though an ankle injury prevented him from filming the necessary scenes in the plane, so Slim Pickens was cast in the role.

[@appytight8468]

It's not George C.Scott who plays 3 roles in the film. It's Peter Sellars, who plays Dr Strangelove, The US President and Group Captain Mandrake (The British Air Force Officer). Both Scott and Sellars were absolutely brilliant

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Yes I know it was an error in cutting

[@michaelstill5184]

The script said Hi Demetri. It was left to Sellers to improvise the rest of the phone call.

[@Dudlow]

I used to listen to Peter Sellers in the Goon Show a lot, and I never stopped being amazed at how different all of his characters were. It was like he wasn't there!

[@LuvtheJEm]

Satire, when done properly, is a beautiful thing.

[@toastnjam7384]

You should react the other mistaken nuclear attack film that came out the this same year. Fail Safe (1964)

[@brandonflorida1092]

Thank you for being almost the only person on KZbin to react to this brilliant classic!

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Thank you for the nice comment

[@iKvetch558]

The plane that was used to take the background shots that the B-52 was composited onto for many of the flying scenes was a B-17. There are several sequences where you can clearly see the outline of the B-17 in shadow as the B-52 is flying low over the USSR. If I recall correct, Kubrick deliberately left them in. Also, for a very different take on this subject from a similarly brilliant filmmaker, definitely check out Fail Safe by Sidney Lumet...starring Henry Fonda among others. 🖖✌

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Thx for the insight we appreciate it!

[@mikejankowski6321]

I had always written the B-17 shadow off as an error that they hoped no one would notice. It was so out of place to the accuracy and seriousness of the flight scenes.

[@terenzo50]

The USAF was seriously pissed off at the accuracy of the B-52 interior and had no idea how such accuracy had been achieved.

[@joannevincent2035]

I'll never forget my first viewing of this film - I was a HS senior visiting my sister at Ohio University in '65. She invited me to a screening in the auditorium for the student body on campus. I fell in love with the film at first sight!

[@DNulrammah]

Thanks for pointing out the scene where John Bull (The Russian Ambassador) broke character, and smiled. I enjoyed the insight into the camerawork. ..Now, I'll have to find a copy of "Barry Lyndon".

[@michaelstill5184]

Peter Bull

[@seniorslaphead8336]

Delighted to see you have most of my Top Ten films ever on this channel. You have excellent taste. 👍

[@TTM9691]

Damn, thanks for the shout out! Ha!

[@thomast.jensen8075]

"The Russian Guy" (the soviet ambassador) was played by English actor Peter Bull, who was an old collegue of Peter Sellers from "The Goon Show". hence his grin during the doctor Strangelove scenes.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

14:20 I think you meant Peter Sellers is playing 3 parts

[@straypigs]

George C. Scott always cited this as his favorite among his other roles as a general (and that includes "Patton"....which is saying a lot!). Great post-movie remarks and also all the facts at the end. You taught me stuff I didn't know, and I've read every book about Kubrick, I thought I knew it all, lol.

[@TTM9691]

Holy s**t, awesome, I just woke up and thought I was dreaming. I wasn't expecting THIS Kubrick movie! I guess my plans have changed and I'll be spending the next hour on THIS! See you on the other side!

[@davorjuric1309]

Dr. Strangelove is a masterpiece! And you guys are great.

[@jamesalexander5623]

About George C. Scott's performance : initially Scott was "Underplaying" Turgidson and Kubrick wanted more .... After a few takes Kubrick would ask Scott to give him one Over the Top .... and those were the ones he used in the film!

[@Alcagaur1]

Without telling Scott, and against the actor's express wishes, as I understand it.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Kubrick did the same thing with Adolphe Menjou in Paths of Glory.

[@michaelstill5184]

@@Alcagaur1 20 years earlier Frank Capra had used the same trick on Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace. Cary hated the result and could only see himself overacting. Most of his fans found it worked perfectly. I think word has got out now and no director would try the 'Give me a big performance as an exercise' routine.

[@miker252]

Dr Strangelove was the first use of the designation of a CRM114 device which has used, in various forms, in about 10 other movies.

[@Bill-oe6pw]

Really loving this channel. Thanks, guys.

[@discordantmelody9316]

This is one of the best reactions I've seen to this movie and I learned a few things from your technical analysis. What does seem to escape reactors to this movie, probably because it jumps generations (remember that this is filmed less than 20 years after the end of the WWII). The Dr Strangelove character is a pastiche of the german scientists repatriated after WWII by the US military. More specifically one of the targets for mockery is Werner von Braun who was virtually kidnapped from Europe by the US military authorities. von Braun was head of the German V2 missile program and many suspect that he never particularly renounced his allegiance to the 3rd Reich. Of course, von Braun was highly influential in the NASA programs that resulted in the Apollo missions to the moons. So the rogue arm giving the nazi salute and the outbursts of 'mein fuhrer' were a dig at the actual loyalties of the german scientists repatriated to the US to work on various military projects. Of course, in 1945 many of those scientists had a choice to make, get repatriated by the Americans / French/ British or by the Soviets. There is the quote from the 1950's in relation to the space race (I forget who by) about "Our German scientists being better than their German scientists" and that's the archetype of Dr Strangelove. You have to believe that in Kubrik's mind there was a German Scientist working for the Soviets in an equivalent role to Dr Strangelove who created the doomsday device.

[@mathewkelly9968]

This movie still holds up it's amazingly visionary

[@tombriggs5348]

Having watched Dr. S. more times than I can count, the only way to experience it fresh is to watch someone else see it for the first time. It brought me joy.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

That in turn brings us joy

[@slowerthinker]

The ultimate 'omg he played how many characters' movie is _Kind Hearts and Coronets_ in which Alec Guinnes played nine roles.

[@88wildcat]

The George C. Scott stumble was an unscripted accident. He wasn't supposed to stumble but he kept in character and Kubrick loved the result. Sellers was also supposed to play Major Kong but he broke his ankle so the part opened up for Slim Pickens. Also, while Kubrick got some help from the Air Force in filming he was not allowed to see the interior of a B-52. The set design of the interior of the B-52 he came up with was so close to the real thing the FBI investigated him. One more thing, the Peace is Our Profession sign was not a prop. It was an actual sign at Strategic Air Command.

[@gggooding]

Sellers only pretended that he broke his ankle - he was embarrassed that he couldn't nail a southern accent so he faked an injury instead (he was brilliant, but he *was* a man child). He told Kubrick the string had gone in his leg - and then Kubrick included that in the film, of course.

[@mikejankowski6321]

Great review! I love this movie and as a photographer really appreciated your evaluation of the lighting. For another great nuclear weapon movie, again with Sellers in multiple parts, check out The Mouse That Roared. And for more Sellers brilliance, I recommend the Pink Panther series, which nobody else seems to have done.

[@owlcowl]

Sellers played two roles in Lolita, Kubrick's previous film before Strangelove. Probably his greatest and certainly most nuanced performance was in Being There, which unfortunately proved to be his penultimate role.

[@brian5154]

This movie was shot in England, quite near London. The genius was Peter Sellers playing three roles; the RAF officer, the President of the US, and Doctor Strangelove

[@leegreenhalgh6677]

One of my favourite films of all time, and the music "We'll Meet Again" when the bomb dropped..

[@Dej24601]

Glad you had a great time with this! For an opposite take on a very similar situation, try “Fail-Safe” which came out in the same year. ( Also in B/W.) Also, try out these 3 black & white films which are guaranteed for a superior film watching experience and demonstrate cinematic mastery: The Third Man (1949); Seven Samurai (1954); Psycho (1960.) Color wouldn’t add anything to them, and would actually detract from the impact they make.

[@thunderstruck5484]

Failsafe is also great of course the serious version of this book thanks

[@SilvanaDil]

Alec Guinness played 8 parts in the classic "Kind Hearts and Coronets."

[@bjgandalf69]

From Wikipedia, information about the accuracy of the interior of the B-52 shown in the film: Lacking cooperation from the Pentagon in the making of the film, the set designers reconstructed the aircraft cockpit to the best of their ability by comparing the cockpit of a B-29 Superfortress and a single photograph of the cockpit of a B-52 and relating this to the geometry of the B-52's fuselage. The B-52 was state-of-the-art in the 1960s, and its cockpit was off-limits to the film crew. When some United States Air Force personnel were invited to view the reconstructed B-52 cockpit, they said that "it was absolutely correct, even to the little black box which was the CRM."[16] It was so accurate that Kubrick was concerned about whether Adam's team had carried out all its research legally.

[@chrism7395]

Peter Sellers also played 3 roles in the 1959 film "The Mouse That Roared" which also satirises the cold war and the policy of mutually assured destruction

[@davidsandy5917]

Every Kubrick film had one thing in common. They all kept you on the edge. That's where he did his best.

[@kurtb8474]

Some trivia I heard: Peter Sellers was also supposed to play Major Kong, but they got Slim Pickens instead. And the bit where the POTUS is talking to the Russian Premiere was mostly ad-libbed by Sellers as well as his performance as Dr. Strangelove. And don't forget that Kubrick brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) which, in one swoop, changed the way science fiction is portrayed in the movies. I watched a space sci-fi flick that was made in 1967 where they were using silver space rockets and the same old space suits that were used in the 50s, along with a cheesy storyline and I thought "Wow! This came out only a year before 2001!"

[@88wildcat]

"The only thing he didn't do was a musical." So we aren't going to count the Singing in the Rain scene in A Clockwork Orange?

[@mikejankowski6321]

I would say it doesn’t count. McDowell improvised it.

[@robertpearson8798]

It was great to hear reactions and analysis of this movie from two people who love this film as much as I do. Couldn’t agree more with you about Kubrick’s films and nobody will ever change my mind either. 2001 has been my favourite film since I first saw it in 1968.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Agree and agree

[@bobschenkel7921]

One reason the brilliant Peter Sellers was so hard to detect as a character is that, by his own admission, he has no real personality of his own. He said in several interviews that the only time he feels comfortable is when he is portraying another person. He admitted to being very uncomfortable in social situations where he was expected to "be himself". He grew up in show biz, both his parents were involved, and he just found his passion, and never left it. Ever. For another truly stunning performance by Sellers, please check out "Being There". Also starring Shirley McClain and Melvin Douglas, Jr.. He plays a man who basically has had no contact of ANY kind with the outside world his whole life, and then he is thrust out into it at the age of about 50, when his benefactor dies. Must be seen.

[@mikaelolofsson2852]

So you guys are real movie nerds huh? I am not, not to that extent. But that's passion for you, it can be very infectious. I found this very enjoyable, and this is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. A view shared by one of my swedish teachers in my teens, by the way. This was the movie he showed in class to illustrate a film making masterpiece. By that point I had already seen the movie but it was still one of the best ways to pass time in class.

[@patmalloy4777]

Peace is our Profession was the actual motto of the Strategic Air Command

[@TTM9691]

Oh my god, Major, I wish Kubrick himself could have seen your reaction, you got this movie 100% from the opening shot to the closing shot! And at the same time, schooling me in lighting. 20:16, for instance! NEVER caught that! And 30:04, brilliant encapsulation, they should put that on the DVD cover, man. What a reaction to a movie that I almost take for granted.!/Richard, that's a great story about how you stumbled upon this film, how it was your first black & white movie, and how you didn't connect it to Kubrick! I did not expect you to pick this as your next Stanley flick! Your story reminded me of a family member who saw "Strangelove" opening day as a kid, back then you'd just go to the movies and watch whatever was playing.....he had no idea what this was, and came out VERY disturbed! I was thinking during the reaction how we're so used to "what the f**k" endings, but this has to be the first. Kubrick almost always has great endings. (I would say "Lyndon" doesn't have the most iconic ending, or "Lolita", but the rest definitely do.) Do Kubrick ANY time! PS: Richard, checked out one of your cooking vids, got me so hungry! Been meaning to tell you that for a while!

[@veronica6325]

It's a model in front of a rear projection movie screen. It is a technique that looks good in black and white; when used for color it looks vary very fake. It was done extensively all the way back to the beginning of film making. The 1932 version of Scarface uses it in the drive by shootout scene if you want to see an earlier example.

[@mrwomby5007]

The map on the wall in Ripper’s office is an aerial shot of London Heathrow airport. Congratulations on a great (and rare) reaction!

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Thank you sir!

[@blytheguy7510]

Peter Sellers is just brilliant in this film. I love actors with that chameleon like way to completely alter themselves for a character.

[@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures]

Kubrick's genius, but he's only my second favourite film-maker after Powell and Pressburger. For their stuff check out The Red Shoes, Life & Death of Colonel Blimp, Matter of Life & Death and Black Narcissus. I'm not saying they're better than Kubrick (who is?) but their films have a deep, humanistic, heightened and slightly surreal emotional punch that I love. They're also Scorcese's favourite. As for Strangelove... I mean, woah. Did you know that when Strategic Command saw this movue they lobbied for a bigger and better war room, because Kubrick's made theirs look so small and shabby? Most of the details in this movie regarding attack orders, unauthorised strikes and recall codes are true, thanks to a mix of working knowledge and inspired guesswork by screenwriter Peter George, who worked for UK's nuclear bomber command. Early attack plans in the early 60s under Strategic Command had a bomb for every Soviet Russian snd Chinese city of over 25,000 inhabitants, plus weapon sites. Their study estimated 275 million dead within the first few hours, and another 325 million within six months. Added on to this is 200 million in Eastern Europe and 100 million in Western Europe. This is without even factoring the Russian / Chinese retaliatory strikes. Another fun fact is that to shave off time to launch in response, the safeguard codes were set and kept on 0000000000, until at least the early seventies. The theory being that the risk of an accidental launch was preferable to having your missiles caught on the ground. There's a brilliantly horrifying and darkly funny book called Command & Control, which is an exhaustive history of all this, including the time they almost blew up North Carolina.

[@eddhardy1054]

Peter Evan, mate I'm totally with you on Powell & Pressburger. Another great film (by just Powell I think) is Peeping Tom. It kind of covers the same ground as Psycho but is more insightful and outclasses it in everyway 😉

[@j.c.a2872]

it's actually Peter Sellers who plays three roles; group captain Mandrake, President Muffley and Dr. Strangelove; brilliant acting !!!!!

[@majormoviemadness9927]

As I said

[@j.c.a2872]

@@majormoviemadness9927 14:20 as you said

[@majormoviemadness9927]

@@j.c.a2872 ahhh, I must have edited out peters name, please refer to 31:08 thanks for correction

[@j.c.a2872]

@@majormoviemadness9927 sorry, never made it that far; my bad

[@-0rbital-]

As fantastic as Sellers is, I think George C. Scott really makes this film. He is just perfect.

[@robertpearson8798]

Legend has it that when Ronald Reagan became President one of his first requests was to be shown the War Room, not realizing that it was fictional.

[@robertseitner8640]

If you want to see an earlier cold war comedy with Peter Sellers, watch The Mouse that Roared. He played three parts in that one too.

[@Robhalifax]

I love the scene where Strangelove is fighting with his arm and the actor playing the Russian guy behind him struggles to hold back a laugh.

[@christophergreen6595]

I've heard that Kubrick's guesswork on how SAC nuclear protocols work was so on-point that he got investigated.

[@franklerch1012]

keep doing this. love watching your reactions. And congrats winning the world series.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Thanks go braves

[@brewstergallery]

Hi fellas ! Ned from Spain here. Thank you for doing an awesome job in reacting to this pitch black comedy masterpiece and one of my favorites. The writing acting and production are pretty hard to top. Ever notice the non stop talk about food n sex ? Like even their names fit into that. I love that weird green screening of the B 52 because it actually adds to the unreal waking nightmare vibe. Your method of letting the majority of the film play out at the lower half of the screen works so well and your comments never intrude on the images or dialogue. That's something that other "reactors" should take note of. Thank again.

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Thanks Ned, I appreciate it!

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Please note my correction of a correction it is a 0.7 lens net 0.07 lens as listed at 40:37, please note

[@Sirala6]

Great to hear the laughter.

[@hannejeppesen1809]

George C. Scott was great in this movie. He only played one part. Peter Sellers played 3 parts. He played the president of the US, colonel Ripper and the German scientist Dr. Strangelove. Both Scotts and and Sellers performance were outstanding, and Kubric was a genious.

[@tombriggs5348]

So many intelligent details, here’s one: the film stock used for the exterior battles between the army and the air force was WW2 vintage orthochromatic b&w. That is how the newsreel style was achieved. One more: the song We’ll Meet Again was a popular USO sing along from WW2. The pairing of a ‘good war’ nostalgia piece and nuclear Armageddon was making the point that such nostalgia feeds American exceptionalism, and in a nuclear age is suicidal.

[@zantimisfit7089]

The music playing at the opening credits is entitled "I'm In The Mood For Love".

[@MrMoggyman]

Kubrick was a fan of Peter Sellers, hence three roles in this film. He even allowed Sellers to ad lib some of the scenes because he was so enamored by Peters acting abilities. There would have been a fourth role too, as Kubrick wanted Sellers to play the B52 pilot, Major Kong, but Sellers did not want this part as he felt it was stretching his talent too thin playing four characters. What Peter did was fake a leg injury to avoid having to play the pilot role. I feel that had Peter lived he would definitely have had a part in Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Peter Sellers was a phenomenal actor and entertainer as seen in this film and many others. But there were two aspects of Peter Sellers that remain little known. First, Peter Sellers had a very low self esteem. He felt that in reality he was a nobody, and portrayed that in the film Being There which Peter thought was some of his best work because it really illustrated how a simplistic nobody can be considered so wise. That film is really a testament to how Peter thought about himself. Second, Peter Sellers suffered from a severe identity crisis. To understand this Peter was like an empty vessel into which a character is poured, after which he took on that characters traits so remarkably well that he literally became the character. Unfortunately he had taken on the identity of so many characters that he really lost track of his own unique personal identity, and that took a toll on him over the years mentally.

[@otterrufus]

If you watch closely during the scene when Maj. Kong is reading off the contents of the survival kit the film and sound track don't match up on the line about being able to have good time Vegas with all that. Since Kong was supposed to be a Texan that original line was that a man could have a good time in Dallas but the movie was being released pretty much right after JFK was killed in Dallas so they went back and had Slim Pickens rerecord the line but they didn't have time to reshoot the scene.

[@stevev2492]

Peter Sellers claimed that he wanted to get out of playing the pilot of the plane because of how exhausting it was playing the 3 parts and had a private clinic put his leg in plaster to convince Kubrick that his leg was broken.

[@rogerhampton9614]

It’s great that you laugh so much and for so long while watching this classic comedy. Problem is, you are missing many more subtle and hilarious moments during your lengthy expressions of mirth.

[@salvadordalinian1986]

Peter Sellers tour de force extraordinaire...

[@davidsandy5917]

Sellers was also planned to play Major Kong. I can't see anyone but Slim Pickens doing that role.

[@martinperry5072]

"Peace Is Our Profession" is the actual official motto of the Strategic Air Command. You also didn't show or comment on the SAC disclaimer at the start of the movie.

[@squadfathercrypto]

The richest irony is that in the midst of craziness and perceived incompetence, the end of the world is brought about by the extreme competence of the flight crew:. they overcome a missile strike, they improvise a new target of opportunity, and the apparently backwoods Major Kong repairs the bomb door circuitry under extreme time pressure.

[@phogue1]

Great review, guys. I may have missed if you noted it, but originally Sellers was to portray Major Kong also. Fortunately, he chose Pickens.

[@jamespepper8671]

they got in trouble for a few things in this movie. they flew around Greenland taking the plane footage and they accidentally went over Thule base and had to land to get rid of that film. The government was not concerned with the interior of the plane but they were concerned about Dr strangeloves computer the curved slide rule which was a real thing. You can download it today but it gave the curves for determining bomb yield and was top secret at the time. Kubrick thought they were concerned with the notification device on the planes but ti was the slide rule thing that dr strangelove used to calculate the time it would take to be underground that was the thing they were concerned about. and Peter Sellers played at least 4 people, he was an extra in the background when George C Scott was explaining the initial plan r attack . Might be more

[@GeraldWalls]

20:45 Both the US and the USSR had nuclear ground to air missiles at this time. I've looked up and left numerous links for the user but, in this case, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader

[@thedragondemands5186]

I never thought it was meant to be funny at the beginning when it turns out they're talking over radios to each other despite being 10 feet away ....the way I understood it, the roar of the engines is so loud they can't really hear each other clearly without their headsets

[@walternullifidian]

W. C. Fields said "I never drink water 'cause fish fuck in it." 🐠🐟

[@mikearroyo3961]

The movie"Fail Safe" is the dramatic version of this movie, played by Henry Founda as the president. A very good movie. Also "Seven days in May" would be a good movie to watch.

[@andrewrobinson7800]

Favorite movie line ever. " you gentlemen can't fight in here, this is the war room."

[@fractaljack210]

Peter Sellars playing three roles was an outstanding choice. My favourite comedy.

[@craigplatel813]

I believe he was also supposed to play Major Kong but had a sprained ankle and couldn't get in and out of the cockpit set

[@Ingens_Scherz]

I made a bunch of know-all comments before I watched your coda - and then watched the coda and had to delete my comments. There's a lesson in that: always watch a video until the very end before you start typing :) Really enjoyable review / reaction with some great expert insights. I just wish I could watch Dr Strangelove for the first time again (I must have seen it 20+ times in the past 30 years or so). You never forget your first time ;)

[@majormoviemadness9927]

Well that’s what the reaction is for, to relive the first time I think? Right?

[@francoliles189]

so many insane lines, but my favorite line of the whole movie "gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!"

[@jackmessick2869]

"Peace is our Profession" was and still is the motto of (then) Strategic Air Command and the current Strategic Command. Not a joke; it is based on deterrence through mutually assured destruction.

[@dubbleplusgood]

For some more George C. Patton, please check out Taps (1981). It has a bunch of other actors that might surprise you if you recognize them.

[@kojiattwood]

The Hospital remains my favourite performance of his overall.

[@SRG1966]

Sellers was a master of imitation. I believe he was the first actor to play three characters in the same film, which gets done frequently now.

[@nevrogers8198]

His hero was Alec Guinness, who had previously played NINE characters in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949). They worked together on the original Ladykillers.

[@SRG1966]

@@nevrogers8198 i stand corrected, thank you.

[@GeraldWalls]

6:45 From what I understand, the B52 scenes were SO accurate that an investigation was launched to determine if someone had leaked top secret info.

[@perrymalcolm3802]

The success of the movie, imho, hinged on the script n actors not “winking at the camera”, delivering their lines in the strictest earnest no matter how bizarre or hysterical they were. They all knocked that out of the park! Agree that riding the bomb is mind blowing in its conception n execution! Nothing like it! I’m 62 now n saw this on TV with my older brother as soon as it was released to television. I can honestly say it has NEVER grown old or tiring! Quite the opposite. Every viewing yields new things at which to marvel. Such as ur picking up on the composition n lighting on Jack D. Ripper (name!) smoking that cigar!!! It is perfect! My only suggestion would be to try to see it, n most old films, on the big screen where they were designed to be seen!

[@FavouriteStorage03]

Daniel Ellsberg talks about this film in his book The Doomsday Machine particularly about how it essentially guessed how flawed nuclear war plans and safety were (and probably still are)

[@owlcowl]

Ellsberg saw the flick with another DoD employee in 1964 and when they exited the theater he remarked "That was a documentary."

[@user-ky6vw5up9m]

This was a comic take on an earlier film called Failsafe starring Henry Fonda.

[@CEngelbrecht]

Fun anecdote: When Ronald Reagan became US president in 1981, he asked the Joint Chiefs to be show him the War Room. They had to tell him that the country didn't have such a thing. Reagan had just seen this film and thought it was a given.

[@nostromo526]

Another classic B&W film with George C. Scott is The Hustler starring Paul Newman. You can follow it up with The Color of Money which is the sequel pairing Newman with Tom Cruise. Not the same classic level as the first movie but solid in its own right.