Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb poster
Director Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Tagline: The hot-line suspense comedy.

Release Date: 1964-01-29

Duration: 95 minutes

Synopsis

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Casting

  • James Earl Jones
    Lt. Lothar Zogg
  • George C. Scott
    General "Buck" Turgidson
  • Peter Sellers
    Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
  • Sterling Hayden
    Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
  • Tracy Reed
    Miss Scott
  • Slim Pickens
    Major "King" Kong
  • Keenan Wynn
    Colonel Bat Guano
  • Burnell Tucker
    Mandrake' aide (uncredited)
  • Gordon Tanner
    Gen. Faceman
  • Hal Galili
    Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member