Dr. Strangelove - 1964

Dr. Strangelove Framed Art Print
13 in. x 19 in.
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Dr. Strangelove (1964) is the leading producer / director Stanley Kubrick's brilliant, Doomsday satirical, provocative black comedy / fantasy regarding policy and the Cold War that has an accident, inadvertently, preemptive nuclear attack. The undated film history - the first commercial success, political satire on nuclear war, has inevitably been compared to another thriller similar published at the same time - well over-serious and melodramatic Fail-Safe (1964). However, it was a cynical objective response, Monty Python-esque, humorous, biting the apocalyptic fears of the 1950s.

The scenario of mind, co-written by the director (with Terry Southern), was based on the novel by Peter George's Red Alert (the U.S. title). work [George's, under his pseudonym Peter Bryant, was published in England with the title of two hours for Doom. Early versions of the script were titled Edge of Doom and the delicate balance of terror.] The novel's main concern was the threat of accidental nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove himself does not appear in the novel, however - it was added by Kubrick and co-writer of the South.

nightmarish mid-1960s the film, its apocalyptic theme of how technology had gone haywire and had dominated humanity. fears of anti-war film actually became a plausible scenario, shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy's Bay of Pigs and the intensification heated up the Cold War and nuclear arms race. [Release of satirical film was delayed for 12 December 1963 to late January 1964, because of the assassination of Kennedy in late November.]