Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Special Edition)


Aspect

Audio

English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)

Runtime

93

Discs

1

Studio

Sony Pictures

Release Date

January 29, 1964

DVD Release

February 27, 2001

16:9

THX

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Rating

PG

Director

Stanley Kubrick

 

U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ?


Edition Details Cast
  • Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian, Thai, Chinese
  • Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), Portuguese (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Because this movie was originally shot using various aspect ratios, the proportions of the screen image will change periodically throughout the movie. This transfer (with its changing aspect ratio) was approved by director Stanley Kubrick himself
  • Featurette: "The Art of Stanley Kubrick: From Short Films to Strangelove"
  • Documentary: "Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove"
  • Original Split-Screen Interview with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
  • Original advertising Gallery
  • Talent Files (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and James Earl Jones)
  • James Earl JonesLt. Lothar Zogg
    Peter SellersGroup Captain (G/C) Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove
    Sterling HaydenBrig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
    Slim PickensMaj. T.J. 'King' Kong
    Tracy ReedMiss Scott
    Frank BerryLt. H.R. Dietrich
    Glenn BeckLt. W.D. Kivel
    Shane RimmerCapt. G.A. 'Ace' Owens
    Paul TamarinLt. B. Goldberg
    Gordon TannerGen. Faceman
    George C. ScottGen. 'Buck' Turgidson
    Keenan WynnCol. 'Bat' Guano
    Peter BullRussian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
    Jack CreleyMr. Staines
    Robert O'NeilAdm. Randolph
    Roy StephensFrank
    Hal GaliliBurpelson AFB Defense Team member
    Laurence HerderBurpelson AFB Defense Team member
    John McCarthyBurpelson AFB Defense Team member