Dr. Strangelove
1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
Summary
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. Financed and released by Columbia Pictures, the film was a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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/* Plot */ Minor correction; flying lower burns more fuel, the text implied it conserves fuel.
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I think paranoid is the more appropriate term here... as used in the article's 'Cast' listing. 'Insane' is a specific legal term reflecting an inability to understand one's actions. Had Ripper been insane, it seems unlikely that he would have had the capacity to order the attack.
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Name at the time; and credited as.
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