Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Page #2

Synopsis: Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all o
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
Production: Sony Pictures
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.4
Metacritic:
96
Rotten Tomatoes:
99%
PG
Year:
1964
95 min
2,492 Views


three simple rules.

First, trust no one, whatever

his uniform or rank, -

- unless he is known to you.

Secondly...

Anything approaching the perimeter

is to be fired upon. Third...

If in doubt, shoot first

and ask questions afterwards.

Better a few

accidental casualties -

- than to lose the entire base

through carelessness.

Any variation on these rules

must come from me personally.

Now men, in conclusion,

I would like to say -

- that in the two years I have been

your commanding officer, -

- I always expected your best, and

you never gave me anything less.

The nation is counting on us, and

we won't let them down. Good luck.

Here's the attack profile, sir.

To ensure the enemy can't monitor or

plant false voice transmission, -

- the CRM114 is to be switched in

to all receiver circuits.

The emergency prefix is to be set

on the dials of the CRM.

This will block all transmissions

not coded with a code prefix.

- Stand by to set code.

- Roger. Ready to set code prefix.

Set code prefix.

- Code prefix set.

- Lock code prefix.

- Code prefix locked.

- Switch to CRM descriminators.

All circuits switched.

Check auto destruct circuits.

Auto destruct circuits checked.

Primary target:

ICBM complex at Laputa.

Target reference: YGT360.

fused for air-burst at 10,000 feet.

will be used if first malfunctions.

Otherwise

proceed to secondary target:

Missile complex seven miles east

of Borshov. Target reference:

NBX108.

Fused air-burst at 12,000 feet.

Sir, something rather interesting

has cropped up.

Music. Civilian broadcasting.

I think the Pentagon

is testing our readiness.

They're going too far. We'll be

inside Russian radar in 20 minutes.

Listen. All the stations

are churning it out.

Mandrake, I thought

I ordered all radios impounded.

I was impounding this one

when I happened to switch it on.

With our boys in Russian radar in

Group Captain...

The officer exchange programme does

not allow you to question my orders.

I realise that, but I thought

you'd be pleased to hear the news.

After all, let's face it...

We don't want to start a nuclear war

unless we have to.

Please sit down...

and turn that thing off.

What about the planes? Surely we'll

issue the recall code immediately.

The planes will not be recalled.

My attack orders stand.

That is, to my way of thinking,

rather an odd way of looking at it.

If a Russian attack was in progress,

we'd not hear civilian broadcasting.

- Are you certain of that?

- I'm certain.

- And what if it were true?

- I'm still not with you, sir.

If an attack was not in progress,

your orders to the entire wing...

I would say, sir, that something

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle, Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of grammar school, there seemed to be little change in his attitude or his results. Hoping to find something to interest his son, Jack introduced Stanley to chess, with the desired result. Kubrick took to the game passionately, and quickly became a skilled player. Chess would become an important device for Kubrick in later years, often as a tool for dealing with recalcitrant actors, but also as an artistic motif in his films. more…

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