Dr. Strangelove, or, How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb [videorecording] /Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern & Peter George ; directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick.
Contributor(s): Sellers, Peter | Scott, George C | Hayden, Sterling | Wynn, Keenan | Pickens, Slim | Bull, Peter | Jones, James Earl | Reed, Tracy | Creley, Jack | Kubrick, Stanley | Southern, Terry | George, Peter | Johnson, Laurie | Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm) | Columbia Pictures Corporation.
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Visual materialPublisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2004, c1963Edition: Widescreen format; 40th anniversary special ed.Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : ill. ; 20 cm.).ISBN: 1404946160.Other title: Dr. Strangelove | Doctor Strangelove | How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.Subject(s): Nuclear warfare -- Drama | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Drama | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Drama | Cold War -- Drama | Nuclear warfare -- Fiction | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Fiction | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Fiction | Cold War -- Fiction | Nuclear warfare -- Fiction | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Fiction | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Fiction | Cold war -- Fiction | VideodiscsGenre/Form: Comedy films. | Film adaptations. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: [Fic] | 813/.54 Adult
DVD; DTS in English; Dolby digital 5.1 in English; mono.; region 1.
Soundtrack in English or French; subtitles in English, French, Chinese, Korean, or Thai.
Closed-captioned.
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed, Jack Creley.
Director of photography, Gilbert Taylor ; film editor, Anthony Harvey ; music, Laurie Johnson.
Made at Shepperton Studios, England.
Based on the book: Red alert / by Peter George.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1963.
Essay by Roger Ebert and original production stills in accompanying booklet.
Disc 1 contains feature. Disc 2 contains featurettes "No fighting in the war room, or, Dr. Strangelove and the nuclear threat", "Inside Dr. Strangelove, or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb", "Best Sellers, or, Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove", "The art of Stanley Kubrick: from short films to Strangelove"; an interview with Robert McNamara; split screen interviews with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott; filmographies; theatrical advertising gallery; and previews.
A satire in which the president of the U.S. and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a nuclear holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears the Soviets are poisoning the U.S. water supply.
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