The Criterion Collection
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Edition no. 821
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Featuring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed
Stanley 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 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 (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 wheelchair-bound 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.
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Format: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
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English 1.0 PCM Mono
, English 5.1 DTS-HD MA Surround
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English
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A
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1 Disc |
BD-50
Supplements
- 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 from a 1965 audio interview with Stanley Kubrick, conducted by Jeremy Bernstein
- Four short documentaries from 2000, 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 Peter Sellers and actor George C. Scott
- Excerpt from a 1980 interview with Peter Sellers from NBC
- Trailer
- A booklet featuring an essay by scholar David Bromwich and a 1962 article by screenwriter Terry Southern on the making of the film
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Producer: Curtis Tsui
Artwork: Eric Skillman
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