Cast and Crew Details
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Producer:
Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon, Leon Minoff
Screenwriter:
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Cinematographer:
Gilbert Taylor
Editor:
Anthony Harvey
Cast:
Peter Sellars, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
1 Hr. 35 Min.
PG
1964
Screening format: 35mm
Continue our romp through Kubrick's oeuvre with this MFF2014 alum. With the Soviet Union and U.S. on the verge of nuclear war, it only takes one loony general (Sterling Hayden) who believes that the Commies seek to destroy our “precious bodily fluids,” a Pentagon war room populated by maniacs (including an unhinged George C. Scott, with Peter Sellers playing both the president and a Nazi scientist), and a patriotic B-52 bomber pilot carrying an atomic payload (the iconic Slim Pickens) to assure our mutual destruction. Not just a great black comedy, but one of the greatest films of all time, Kubrick's “Dr. Strangelove” is vicious, hilarious political satire that resonates in 2018 just as much as in 1964.