Dr. Strangelove

Synopsis

"No major director seemed better able to plug into the zeitgeist of his era (particularly in the 1960s) than Kubrick, and no film so completely captured the country’s growing disaffection with the military-industrial complex as Kubrick’s adaptation (with writer Terry Southern) of Peter George’s political satire Two Hours to Doom. The resulting work is a chronicle, at once hilarious and frightening, of the fallout from the decision of the deranged General Jack D. Ripper (Hayden) to deploy a bomber wing of the Strategic Air Command to drop the big one on Russia. The inimitable Peter Sellers is cast in three roles: the President, the eponymous Dr. Strangelove, and Group Captain Mandrake." – Harvard Film Archive