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elleng

(141,926 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:06 PM Aug 2025

TCM LATE night! 12:45 AM Dr. Strangelove

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
A general orders a nuclear attack on Russia; POTUS and the Joint Chiefs try to cancel it.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick | Cast: Peter Sellers, George C Scott, Sterling Hayden

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TCM LATE night! 12:45 AM Dr. Strangelove (Original Post) elleng Aug 2025 OP
NYT January 30, 1964 Screen: 'Dr. Strangelove,' a Shattering Sick Joke IA8IT Aug 2025 #1
we will meet again, dont know where , don know when, on some sunny beach, some day!!!!! vera lynn AllaN01Bear Aug 2025 #2
YES! See you LATER!!! elleng Aug 2025 #3

IA8IT

(6,458 posts)
1. NYT January 30, 1964 Screen: 'Dr. Strangelove,' a Shattering Sick Joke
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 02:23 PM
Aug 2025

We're way past that level of loony now IMHO

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/06/17/specials/southern-strangelove.html

Stanley Kubrick's new film, called "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," is beyond any question the most shattering sick joke I've ever come across. And I say that with full recollection of some of the grim ones I've heard from Mort Sahl, some of the cartoons I've seen by Charles Addams and some of the stuff I've read in Mad Magazine.

For this brazenly jesting speculation of what might happen within the Pentagon and within the most responsible council of the President of the United States if some maniac Air Force general should suddenly order a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union is at the same time one of the cleverest and most incisive satiric thrusts at the awkwardness and folly of the military that have ever been on the screen.

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AllaN01Bear

(29,805 posts)
2. we will meet again, dont know where , don know when, on some sunny beach, some day!!!!! vera lynn
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 09:04 PM
Aug 2025

where is col so and so as slim pickens rides the bomb to its target. whopping and a hollerin.

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