Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - The Criterion Collection

Zavvi - The Home of Pop CultureSTANLEY KUBRICK’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is without a doubt one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter PETER SELLERS (The Pink Panther) plays three wildly different roles: Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake, timidly trying to stop a nuclear attack on the USSR ordered by an unbalanced general (The Killing’s STERLING HAYDEN); the ineffectual and perpetually dumbfounded President Merkin Muffley, who must deliver the very bad news to the Soviet premier; and the titular Strangelove himself, a wheelchairbound presidential adviser with a Nazi past. Finding improbable hilarity in nearly every unimaginable scenario, Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a genuinely subversive masterpiece that officially announced Kubrick as an unparalleled stylist and pitch-black ironist.Bonus Features:Restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackAlternate 5.1 surround soundtrackNew interviews with Stanley Kubrick scholars Mick Broderick and Rodney Hill;archivist Richard Daniels; cinematographer and camera innovator Joe Dunton;camera operator Kelvin Pike; and David George, son of Peter George, on whosenovel Red Alert the film is basedExcerpts from a 1965 audio interview with Kubrick, conducted by JeremyBernsteinFour short documentaries from 2000, about the making of the film, the sociopoliticalclimate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry ofKubrickInterviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. ScottExcerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC’s Today showTrailerPLUS: An essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1962 article by screenwriterTerry Southern on the making of the filmClick Images to Enlarge