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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 and starring Peter Sellers in three roles, including the title character.
In Peter George's novel, Red Alert (1958), which was the basis for the film, the device is called the CRM 114. [3] George was well-informed; under the U.S. military Joint Electronics Type Designation System (The "AN" System), CRM is the designator for an air-transportable cargo (C) radio (R) maintenance or test assembly (M) and 114 is a feasible series number.
Red Alert was more solemn than its film version and it did not include the character Dr. Strangelove, though the main plot and technical elements were quite similar. A novelisation of the actual film, rather than a reprint of the original novel, was published by George, based on an early draft in which aliens try to understand what happened ...
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.
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]
Released 60 years ago this week, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” still resonates today, writes Noah Berlatsky. Although ...
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 ...
The Stanley Kubrick Archive is held by the University of the Arts London in their Archives and Special Collection Centre at the London College of Communication. [1] The Archive opened in October 2007 and contains material collected and owned by the film director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999). [2]