This doesn't wear well with time. It declined from a 5 to a 4 over the past ten years. Peter Sellers and George C. Scott shine. Sterling Hayden is great also. It's a cold war scenario that was super-trendy in the 1960's. Today's generations must wonder what all the fuss was about.

A triumph. Funny, mordant and thoroughly unnerving comedy. Slim Pickens is particularly good, as is Sellers in all three of his roles. The precious bodily fluids speech is worth the price of the movie on its own.

Released in 1964, Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb is cinema in its finest art form. While the dominant Cold War theme is a bit dated now, the film serves a practical purpose today, namely to give a genuine feel of what conditions the world was under during that time for subsequent generations notwithstanding the strong undertones of dark humor. For the uninitiated, the basic story is that American Air Force General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) sends the attack signal to an airborne bomber piloted by Maj. T.J. King Kong (Slim Pickens). Capt. Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) realizes that Ripper is crazy and attempts to contact the President (Peter Sellers) who is barricaded in the war room with his advisors, the hawkish Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) and ex-Nazi Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) as well as the Russian ambassador (Peter Bull). As the men debate the merits of letting the chips fall or trying to stop the bomber, Maj. Kong is doing his best to fulfill his duties in nuclear combat, toe to toe with the Russkies. Kong eventually rides the big one down after freeing a jammed bomb. The casting was superb, with Sellers playing three parts (originally four until Pickens was cast as Kong which was much better). An interesting contrast is with the film Failsafe (1964) which has the same basic story yet is straight and in color, while Strangelove is back and white with dark comedy. The bottom line is that Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love the Bomb reaches the pinnacle in film as an art form and remains relevant today while other similar themed movies are outdated; however, I'm not sold on the movie being a 5 star cult film.

One of my all-time favorite movies. I wish I could have seen the pie-fight in the War Room scene, which Kubrick deleted from the final cut. Sellers is at his career best, playing three roles. So tell me: who WAS Dr. Strangelove? I always assumed he was Edward Teller, or perhaps Herman Kahn, but he has a curious resemblance to Henry Kissinger. Look carefully at the bombs: one is named Lolita.