Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is Stanley Kubrick's 1964 masterpiece of dark satire, following a deranged U.S. general who triggers a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Peter Sellers delivers a brilliant triple performance as a bumbling British officer, the U.S. President, and the eccentric ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Strangelove. The film remains one of cinema's greatest political satires, skewering military logic, Cold War ideology, and the terrifying madness of nuclear brinkmanship.

• Peter Sellers was paid 55% of the entire film's budget.
• Sellers originally played four roles, but dropped one.
• Stanley Kubrick insisted on over 100 takes for some scenes.
• The famous pie fight ending was filmed but never used.
• Slim Pickens rode the bomb without knowing it was a comedy.

• Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!
• Mein Führer, I can walk!
• You can't let him in here. He'll see everything. He'll see the Big Board!
• I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
• A fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.