Dr. Strangelove Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
DVD - 2016
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President, his aides and the Pentagon struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
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- Series
- Criterion collection ;
821.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Video recordings
Dark comedy films
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Film adaptations
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2016]
- Edition
- Blu-ray special edition ; Blu-ray edition
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Based on the book "Red Alert" by Peter George.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Widescreen (1.66:1).
Special features: New 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 whose novel Red alert the film is based; Excerpts short documentaries, about the making of the film, the sociopolitical climate of the period, the work of actor Peter Sellers, and the artistry of Kubrick; Interviews from 1963 with Sellers and actor George C. Scott; Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Sellers from NBC's Today show; Trailers; Plus: an essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1994 article by screenwriter Terry Southern on the making of the film. - Physical Description
- 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- Blu-ray; region A; requires Blu-ray player.
- Audience
- Not rated.
- Awards
- Named to the National Film Registry in 1989 by the Library of Congress.
Named to the National Film Registry in 1989 by the Library of Congress. - Production Credits
- Director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; film editor, Anthony Harvey ; music, Laurie Johnson.
- ISBN
- 9781681431703
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