Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Comedy

1964

A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people.

Staring

Peter Sellers as Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake/President Merkin Muffley/Dr. Strangelove

George C. Scott as Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson

Sterling Hayden as Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Written by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George