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About
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
Theatrical
Jan 29, 1964
Box Office
$9.5M
Budget
$1.8M
Return
5.3x
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 10, 1997
Theaters
4
Director
Writers
Producers
Stanley Kubrick, Victor Lyndon, Leon Minoff
Music
Studio
Hawk Films, Columbia Pictures
Quotes
See all →Underground Survival in a Nuclear Scenario
Dr. Strangelove
I would not rule out the chance to preserve a nucleus of human specimens. It would be quite easy...heh, heh...at the bottom of ah...some of our deeper mine shafts. Radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep, and in a matter of weeks, sufficient improvements in dwelling space could easily be provided.
President Muffley
How long would you have to stay down there?
Dr. Strangelove
Well let's see now ah...cobalt thorium G....Radioactive half-life of uh,...I would think that uh... possibly uh... one hundred years.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Urgent Call for Action Over Soda Machine
Gp Capt. Mandrake
Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Col. Guano
That's private property.
Gp Capt. Mandrake
Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Cast
Full credits →P
Peter Sellers
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
G
George C. Scott
General 'Buck' Turgidson
S
Sterling Hayden
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
K
Keenan Wynn
Colonel Bat Guano
S
Slim Pickens
Major "King" Kong
P
Peter Bull
Botschafter De Sadesky
James Earl Jones
Lt. Lothar Zogg
T
Tracy Reed
Miss Scott
J
Jack Creley
Mr. Staines
R
Robert O'Neil
Adm. Randolph
G
Glenn Beck
Lt. Kivel
R
Roy Stephens
Frank
S
Shane Rimmer
Capt. 'Ace' Owens
H
Hal Galili
Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
P
Paul Tamarin
Lt. Goldberg
L
Laurence Herder
Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
J
John McCarthy
Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
G
Gordon Tanner
Gen. Faceman
B
Burnell Tucker
Mandrake' aide (uncredited)
V
Victor Harrington
War Room Aide (uncredited)
