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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry ...
Fail-Safe was purported to be so similar to an earlier novel, Red Alert (1958), that the latter's author, Peter George, and film producer Stanley Kubrick (whose own forthcoming picture Dr. Strangelove was loosely adapted from George's novel) sued on a charge of copyright infringement, [2] settling out of court. [3]
The CRM 114 on the B-52 in Dr. Strangelove. The CRM 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from receiving the recall code that would stop them from dropping their hydrogen bomb payloads onto Soviet territory.
Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece of nuclear black comedy, 'Dr. Strangelove,' premiered 60 years ago Monday. It feels as fresh and horrifying today as it did then.
Henriksen, Margot A. Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus. New York: Nation Books, 2009 [2001]. ISBN 978-1-56858-412-6
Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George 's novel Red Alert , on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a ...
And while there is certainly some room left for the stories of the remaining Duttons, with multiple spinoffs now in the works, I'm going to go ahead and call it: this was the end of Yellowstone ...
The two parted ways when Kubrick decided to make Dr. Strangelove as a satirical black comedy, rather than a dramatic thriller, but Harris remained focused on developing a serious nuclear confrontation film, and The Bedford Incident was released less than two years after Dr. Strangelove. [6] [7] [8]