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Genre | Sci-Fi, War |
Format | Blu-ray, Subtitled, 4K |
Contributor | George C. Scott, James Jones, Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden, Tracy Reed, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull, Stanley Kubrick See more |
Initial release date | 1964-01-29 |
Language | English |
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Through a series of military and political accidents, a pair of psychotic senior military officers -- U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chiefs of Staff General "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott) -- hatch an ingenious, foolproof, and irrevocable plan to unleash a wing of B-52 bombers and their nuclear payloads on strategic targets inside Russia. And when the brains behind the scheme, Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist with bizarre ideas about man's future, accidentally activates the bombing mission, the President of the United States (Peter Sellers) is unable to stop it. Although he knows the secret code to stop the mission, the Royal Air Force's Group Captain Mandrake (Peter Sellers) isn't much help since he's come under attack at a U.S. Air Force base by a group of U.S. paratroopers who've been accidentally activated, too. So, despite all efforts to recall him, Major T. J. "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) personally sees his bombing mission to its fateful conclusion, even as the Russian Ambassador (Peter Bull) is summoned to the White House in hopes of averting a crisis and preventing the activation of the "Doomsday" machine. But the inevitable comes to pass as the efforts of the Pentagon brass and all the politicians in Moscow and Washington cannot undo the cascading series of cataclysmic events
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Wickedly dark comedy features Peter Sellers (in three roles) in the midst of impending nuclear war. Co-stars George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.66:1
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Package Dimensions : 6.73 x 5.35 x 0.47 inches; 2.89 ounces
- Director : Stanley Kubrick
- Media Format : Blu-ray, Subtitled, 4K
- Run time : 1 hour and 35 minutes
- Release date : July 6, 2021
- Actors : Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens
- Dubbed: : Czech, Italian, German, French, Japanese, Spanish
- Subtitles: : Czech, Arabic, Danish, English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Hindi, Japanese, Hungarian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
- Producers : Stanley Kubrick
- Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B094T5375T
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 2
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,540 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #18 in Military & War (Movies & TV)
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2025This movie was made in 1964. I really don't like the title, "Dr Strangelove...", what kind of name is that? It is misleading to me. I'm 68 years old. In the 1950s and 1960s, people were obsessed with "the bomb". We were going to blow ourselves off the planet with nuclear weapons any day now it had seemed. The younger generations have faced so many threats that this movie may seem laughable to them. Actually, it was meant to be a sort of dark comedy in the first place. In the credits they even say something to the effect that this couldn't happen in real life. The movie is about the Cold War (who is old enough to remember that?). What would happen if Russia or the US would inadvertently start World War III? One general, Jack D. Ripper (appropriately named), played by Sterling Hayden, decides that the Communist Russians are determined to undermine the US, so he sends codes to the nuclear-armed bombers to go attack Russia - yes, he has gone insane. The performances in this movie are incredible, never mind the plot, just enjoy the acting. Slim Pickens steals the show with his performance as Major Kong. George C. Scott plays the ultra-hawk general Buck Turgidson. James Earl Jones is in the movie, one of his first roles. Peter Sellars has triple-duty as a British Royal Air Force officer, the President of the US and also as the Dr. Strangelove character. The movie was directed by the late great Stanley Kubrick.
Once General Ripper sends the B-52 bombers on their way to Russia, the President and the Russian leader must find a way to stop them. The Russians have invented a "doomsday machine". If Russia is attacked, then their network of computers will start firing off Russian missiles, so everyone dies, and no one wins. Unfortunately, the Russians had not announced this invention yet. In the end, only one damaged bomber gets through. You are torn between cheering on that last bomber and realizing that that last US bomber must not get through. It leads to a scene that I will never forget. Their communications are down so Major Kong (Slim) goes down into the bomb bay to repair the wiring and complete his mission. He does fix the wiring which releases the bomb - but Major Kong is still sitting on it! This scene is forever etched in my mind. Kong has a cowboy hat that he waves around as he rides the bomb to the ground and them boom! This is not only the end of Kong but the end of the world as we know it. It is one of the best scenes I've ever seen in any movie. Back in the War Room, the US President and his advisors plan how they will go underground with a select number of people to ride out the nuclear destruction of the above ground world. The movie ends with nuclear bomb after nuclear bomb going off while a woman sings the 1939 song "We'll Meet Again". "We'll meet again, Don't know where, don't know when, But I know we'll meet again some sunny day..." The message seems to be that the human race will find a way to destroy civilization in spite of itself. But this is just a dark comedy, right? Right?!
- Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017DR. STRANGELOVE is a black and white movie about "The Bomb." The movie stars George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, and Slim Pickens. For those not familiar with Slim Pickens, countless Americans have been thrilled by his comedic charm in Spielberg's epic movie, 1941.George C. Scott plays General Turgidson, who is played in an exaggerated cartoonish manner. Sterling Hayden plays General Jack Ripper, who plays an unpleasant paranoid character, who likes to talk about "precious bodily fluids." General Jack Ripper eventually shoots himself in his quarters. Keenan Wynn plays Colonel Bat Guano, and in this movie, he resembles the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. His "big scene" in this movie is to shoot a hole in a Coca Cola machine in order to get change for a pay telephone, and out of the hole comes a gush of soda that douses Colonel Bat Guano (in the same humiliating manner as the humiliation showered upon the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off). The Coca Cola scene occurs at 73 minutes.
Dr. Strangelove begins with an image of a remote island poking above the clouds, with the narration, "For more than a year, ominous rumors had been privately circulating among high level western leaders, that the Soviet Union had been at work on what was the ultimage weapon, a doomsday device. Intelligence sources traced the site of the top-secret Russian project . . . to the perpetually fog-shrouded wasteland below the Arctic peaks of the Zerkoff Islands . . . "
SEXY FUELING SCENE. Then, at the 75-second time point, begins footage showing the fueling by a tanker jet to a bomber. Some of the footage shows a side view of the two jets, which are connected to each other by the fueling tube. Some of the footage was shot where the camera was pointing out the rear fueling door of the tanker jet, and in this shot, the viewer is shown how the fueling pipe thrusts in and out and in and out of the receiving device of the bomber. The music is romantic Montovani music. After a couple of minutes of this amusing sexual innuendo, the plot starts.
We see an airforce base with radar antenna rotating, and a bomber taking off. Then we see a general conversing with Peter Sellars. "The base is being put on condition red . . . I'm afraid this is not an exercise . . . I'm afraid this is a shooting war," says the general. The general is General Jack Ripper.
At the 6-minute time point comes visually appealing footage of bombers flying over snowy mountain peaks. At 6 min, 30 sec, we see Slim Pickens in the pilot's seat in the cockpit of a bomber reading Playboy Magazine. At 8 min, his crew consults a codebook, and Slim Pickens and his crew discuss "Plan R." Slim Pickens converses with another crewman, saying: "Did you say using Attack Plan R? . . . how many times have I told you that I don't want no horsing around on the airplane . . . well I've been to one world's fair, one picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard coming over a set of earphones . . . you sure you got today's code? . . . there's just gotta be something wrong." Slim Pickens looks at the control panel which reads: FGD135. Then, he looks in the codebook, and notices that FGD135 matches up with Attack Plan R. At 9 min, 45 sec, we see fellow crewman James Earl Jones (as we know, he later played the voice of Darth Vader). At 10 min begins a steady drumbeat and trumpet playing, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." (This is on the soundtrack whenever we are shown the inside of Slim Pickens' jet bomber.) Slim Pickens says, "Well boys, I guess this is it. Nuclear combat, toe-to-toe with the Ruskies . . . look boys, I ain't much a hand at giving speeches . . . I have a fair idea of the personal emotions you might be thinking." (At this point, Slim Pickens has put on his cowboy hat, and he speaks into a microphone.)
BIKINI SCENE. Then, at 12 min, we are in General Turgeson's suite (played by George C. Scott) and the viewer is treated to many views of his secretary in a bikini. The two of them talk about Plan R. For three entire minutes, the viewer is treated to images of the slender secretary in a bikini. At 16 min, the scene returns to Peter Sellars in the computer room at an air force base, that is, at the same air force base where General Jack Ripper works.
BODILY FLUIDS. This movie has a few references to "precious bodily fluids." The first of these references occurs at 24 minutes in a talk in General Ripper's office by the general to Peter Sellars. At 46 min, General Ripper says this to Peter Sellars, "fresh pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids." This takes place in a discussion about fluoridation being a Communist plot. At 56 minutes, the dialogue goes, "foreign substances introduced into our precious bodily fluids . . . that's the way a Commie works." At 60 min, Peter Sellars remarks that there was never anything wrong with his "bodily fluids."
SURVIVAL KIT. At 35 min, the scene changes from the tense situation in the war room, to the comedic situation in the bomber piloted by Slim Pickens. Comedy comes from the perusual of the items in the survival kit. The items include, vitamin pills, morphine pills, sleeping pills, Russian phrase book, Russian rubles, prophylactics, nylon stockings, etc. The sound track features a harmonica and snare drum. Slim Pickens remarks, "Shoot! A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with that stuff!!!"
At 51 minutes, the character of Dr. Strangelove make his entrance, and the discussion is about the Doomesday Machine. Here, Dr. Strangelove (played by Sellers) speaks to the President of the United States (played by Sellers). At 61 minutes, General Ripper kills himself in the bathroom, thus bringing to a halt his chit-chat session with Peter Sellers. The scene then changes, and we are with Slim Pickens in his bomber. The problem is that a Russian missile approaches, and it damages the bomber. At this point, Peter Sellers needs to call the President of the United States, but he does not have change for the pay telephone, and the viewer is treated to the Coca Cola scene (described above). At 68 minutes, Slim Pickens continues to fly his damaged bomber and he says: "If we was flying any lower we'd need sleigh bells on this thing."
At 82 minutes, James Earl Jones notices a problem with the bomb bay doors. They won't open. So Slim Pickens decides to go down to the bomb bay to open them manually. Slim Pickens orders James Earl Jones to "fire the explosive bolts" but this does not work. And so, as the snare drums continue, and as the horns play "Johnny Comes Marching Home," Slim Pickens plays his very, very, famous "Yee-hawwww" scene by riding one of the nuclear bombs out of the bomb bay door, where it eventually explodes. Then, we hear the sone, "We'll Meet Again." The real reason I bought this movie was to see if it was the recording by The Byrds or the recording by Vera Lynn. I was disappointed to learn that it was Vera Lynn's recording, not the recording by The Byrds. Oh well.
- Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2025Perhaps one of the most important movies about and during the Cold War. It perfectly satirizes the insanity of the Cold War and Mutually Assured Destruction. The final line from George C. Scott epitomizes the Cold War m(ndset, and the cast is fantastic. I lived through that era and this is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you haven’t seen it, do so.
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José Luis Fernández AlvarezReviewed in Spain on May 9, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Una obra maestra
Es una película que he visto un montón de veces y cada vez aprecias algo nuevo: ¡magistral!
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Eleanor RigbyReviewed in Germany on May 13, 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars Wenn zwei sich streiten, freut sich der Dritte
Dr. Strangelove" ist einer der frühen Filme Kubricks, der im Erscheinungsjahr 1964 aktuelle Themen karikierte und mit einer gehörigen Portion Spott kritisierte. Der durch die Kuba-Krise seinerzeit nicht mehr ganz so kalte Kalte Krieg droht in Kubricks Film erste recht angeheizt zu werden, weil ein durchgeknallter General heiß darauf ist, die Russen endgültig kalt zu machen. Er gibt einen bestimmten Befehl, der unter keinen Umständen zurückgenommen werden kann. Daraufhin machen sich Kampfflugzeuge schwer bewaffnet auf den Weg um die Russkis" endgültig zu besiegen. Als die amerikanische Regierung davon erfährt, versammelt der Präsident sein Gefolge im War Room, wo sie beraten, wie sie die drohende Katastrophe aufhalten können. Zuerst wird die Sowjetunion unterrichtet, die wiederum die Amerikaner davon in Kenntnis setzt, dass im Falle eines Angriffs ein Mechanismus in Gang gesetzt werde, der die ganze Welt radioaktiv verseuche. Das eine wie das andere kann nicht mehr abgebrochen werden. So wird schön herausgestellt, dass sowohl Sowjets als auch Amerikaner einander eigentlich sehr ähnlich sind. Beide Staaten sind nämlich gleich dämlich und paranoid, wenn es darum geht, sich Schutzpläne auszudenken, die sie nicht mehr kontrollieren können.
Dr. Strangelove" ist eine meisterlich inszenierte Kritik am Kalten Krieg und übertriebenen Patriotismus. Dabei werden sowohl die Amerikaner als auch die Sowjets negativ und sehr stereotyp dargestellt und ins Lächerliche gezogen. Immerhin bekommt man sehr schnell das Gefühl, dass es allein sexuell frustrierte oder schwanzgesteuerte männliche Wesen sind, die die Entscheidungen treffen. Phallussymbole gibt es somit auch zuhauf in diesem Film und auch einige Namen der Figuren spielen darauf an. So kann man schon das Betanken eines Flugzeugs ganz zu Anfang des Films als Phallussymbol sehen. Ganz offensichtlich wird es dann bei General Jack D. Ripper (aufgepasst: sprechender Name), der sich den Plan zur Vernichtung der Sowjetunion ausgedacht hat. Immer wieder redet er von den Körperflüssigkeiten" und wie die Russen die Amerikaner hinterrücks über das Trinkwasser vergifteten. Im Klartext bedeutet das eigentlich, dass Ripper die Russen für seine Impotenz verantwortlich macht. Dass er ständig eine Zigarre im Mund hat und mit Freude ein überdimensional großes Maschinengewehr bedient, ist Ausdruck seiner sexuellen Frustration und Minderwertigkeitskomplexe. Gesteuert von seinen Trieben, so wie viele andere Charaktere auch, handelt er völlig irrational, womit Kubrick vielleicht sagen möchte, dass auch der Krieg absolut irrational ist.
Die Position der Personen im Film wird vor allem filmisch sehr gut dargestellt. Dr. Strangelove (der auch im War Room anwesend ist, weil er als wissenschaftlicher Berater des Präsidenten fungiert und eigentlich deutscher ist, jedoch nach Ende des zweiten Weltkriegs nach Amerika gegangen ist) und Ripper werden sehr häufig aus der Frosch-Perspektive gezeigt, um deutlich zu machen, dass sie eine wichtige Rolle spielen und die Fäden in Händen halten. Vor allem bei Dr. Strangelove ist dies interessant zu sehen, weil er nur sehr wenige Szenen hat, obwohl der Film ja nach ihm benannt ist. Das soll vielleicht andeuten, dass die die sich im Hintergrund haltenden meist die Mächtigsten sind, die alles kontrollieren, ohne dass es den anderen auffällt.Hinzu kommt noch, dass er eine Behinderung hat und im Rollstuhl sitzt. Seine Behinderung könnte symbolisch für seinen kranken Charakter stehen.
Zynisch finde ich auch, dass jedes Mal, wenn wir Szenen aus dem Flugzeug sehen, das Lied When Johnny comes marching home again" angespielt wird. Dieses Lied wird auch in der Realität immer von der Army gespielt, wenn ihre Soldaten in den Krieg ziehen und auch bei anderen Anlässen. Dabei ist When Johnny comes marching home again" eigentlich nur eine Coverversion von Johnny, I hardly knew ya", welches ein irisches Anti-Kriegslied ist. Wenn man sich das vor Augen hält, dann kann man das eigentlich nur als kritischen Kommentar Kubricks werten.
Doch vor allem einige aberwitzige Dialoge machen den Film auch ohne die Symbolik schon sehenswert. In einer Szene zum Beispiel redet der Präsident mit dem sowjetischen Außenminister, doch wenn man nicht wüsste, wer da mit wem spricht, würde man denken, dass sich da ein altes Ehepaar unterhält. Genauso amüsant sind einzelne Phrasen wie You can't fight in here, this is a War Room!"
Neben den Dialogen kann man auch über so einiges, was sich im Hintergrund befindet, schmunzeln. In einer Szene kann man auf dem Stützpunkt beispielsweise eine Werbetafel mit der Aufschrift Peace is our profession" sehen. Bis zu einem gewissen Grad kann man das sogar mit dem Kontrast, der sich beim Lied auftut, vergleichen.
Man kann also sagen, dass Dr. Strangelove" ein sehr komplexer Film ist, der voll von Symbolen und Seitenhieben auf damalige Verhältnisse ist. Doch würde ich sagen, dass dieser Film heute noch genauso begeistern kann wie damals und ein sehr schönes Zeitzeugnis ist. Denn auch wenn der Kalte Krieg heutzutage vorbei ist und man zu dem Ergebnis kommen könnte, dass er heute keinen Wert mehr hat, sehe ich das nicht so. Im Kern ist er auch noch für heutige Verhältnisse eine Warnung an und kritischer Kommentar zur Politik generell. Alles in allem ist er also heute auch noch ein sehr sehenswerter Film, der unterhalten wie auch nachdenklich stimmen kann.
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Ich würde sagen, wenn man die Story auf ein Minimum runterbrechen müsste, dann könnte man sagen, handelt es sich bei Dr. Strangelove" um eine typische Wenn-zwei-sich-streiten-freut-sich-der-Dritte-Story. Immerhin ist es ja so, dass während sich die Sowjetunion und Amerika kabbeln und am Ende für eine nukleare Katastrophe sorgen, die den Großteil der Menschheit auslöschen wird, Dr. Strangelove (der ja offensichtlich ein Nazi ist) die Staatsoberhäupter von seiner Idee in den Untergrund zu gehen mit einem Verhältnis 1 Mann :10 Frauen überzeugen kann. So obsiegen am Ende doch die Nazis und ihr krankes Gedankengut über die eigentlichen Sieger des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Dafür spricht auch die letzte Szene, in der Dr. Strangelove wieder stehen kann und den Hitlergruß macht.
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ShopperReviewed in France on January 25, 2025
5.0 out of 5 stars Très bon film
Bonne qualité en bluray noire et blanc acheter en occasion car difficile à trouver à avoir dans sa collection
- Bruno Correa GautoReviewed in Canada on December 10, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Good product.
Good product.
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Franco SegovianoReviewed in Mexico on November 27, 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Mi película favorita de Kubrick
Por fin pude conseguir este dvd. Me encantó el subtitulaje en español. Además viene con varios extras.