Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
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- ISBN: 0767863720
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Physical Description
videodisc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound., black and white ; 4 3/4 in. - Edition Special edition.
- Publisher Culver City, California : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [2001]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963. Based on the book "Red alert" by Peter George. Special features: New documentary: The art of Stanley Kubrick from short films to Strangelove; Inside the making of Dr. Strangelove; original split-screen interview with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott; original advertising gallery; theatrical trailers; talent files; animated menus; production notes; scene selections. GMD: videodisc. |
| Creation/Production Credits Note: | Music, Laurie Johnson ; director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; editor, Anthony Harvey ; production design, Ken Adam. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed, James Earl Jones, Jack Creley, Frank Berry, Robert O'Neil, Glen Beck, Roy Stephens, Shane Rimmer, Hal Galili, Paul Tamarin, Laurence Herder, Gordon Tanner, John McCarthy. |
| Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: PG. |
| System Details Note: | DVD; region 1; Dolby digital; 1.33:1 aspect ratio. |
| Language Note: | Soundtracks: English; dubbed French; dubbed Spanish; dubbed Portuguese; with optional English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, or Thai subtitles; closed captioned. |
| Awards Note: | Best picture, best director (Stanley Kubrick), best actor (Peter Sellers) and best screenplay adaptation (Stanley Kubrick, Peter George & Terry Southern). |
Additional Information
Library Journal Review
Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Criterion is on a Columbia Pictures streak. On the heels of releases of Easy Rider, Gilda, In Cold Blood, and Only Angels Have Wings, several more of the seasoned Hollywood studio's catalog are getting deluxe upgrades. Relying on the versatile Peter Sellers in three roles, including the titular ex-Nazi, Dr. Strangelove (1964) delivers a darkly brilliant satire of nuclear warfare premised on mutually assured destruction. In a fantastical screwball comedy, Mr. Jordan (1941) tells the tale of a baffled boxer (Robert Montgomery) who dies in a plane crash only to learn that he has gone to heaven too soon, with the amenable pearly gatekeeper (Claude Rains) helping to make amends. In a solid if overrated film noir, Humphrey Bogart shines in Lonely Place (1950) as a volatile screenwriter suspected of murder who depends on the love of an increasingly skeptical woman (Gloria Grahame) for redemption. VERDICT Better looking than ever, and more understood thanks to informative extras, this disparate trio-with Strangelove the clear standout-are recommended for classic-movie fans.-Jeff T. Dick, Davenport, IA © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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