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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 1964
Country: UK
Runtime: 93
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English, Russian
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sound: Mono
Taglines:the hot-line suspense comedy
Writing by: Peter George - (novel "Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom")
Stanley Kubrick - (screenplay and adaptation) &
Terry Southern - (screenplay and adaptation) &
Peter George - (screenplay and adaptation)
Produced by: Stanley Kubrick - producer
Victor Lyndon - associate producer
Leon Minoff - executive producer (uncredited)
Cast: Peter Sellers - Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott - Gen. Buck Turgidson
Sterling Hayden - Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn - Col. Bat Guano
Slim Pickens - Maj. T.J. King Kong
Peter Bull - Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
James Earl Jones - Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed - Miss Scott
Jack Creley - Mr. Staines
Frank Berry - Lt. H.R. Dietrich
Robert ONeil - Adm. Randolph
Music: Laurie Johnson
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
Plot: U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ?
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The screenplay title is incorrectly spelled. It reads: Base on the book "Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement about the making of the film.
Goofs: We know about 13 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Miscellaneous: The opening sequence contains the grammatically incorrect credit "Base on the book Red Alert by Peter George".
Trivia: There are 65 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Comedy
Release Year: 1964
Country: UK
Runtime: 93
Rating: 7.7 (0)
Languages: English, Russian
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Peter George - (novel "Red Alert, aka Two Hours to Doom")
Stanley Kubrick - (screenplay and adaptation) &
Terry Southern - (screenplay and adaptation) &
Peter George - (screenplay and adaptation)
Produced by: Stanley Kubrick - producer
Victor Lyndon - associate producer
Leon Minoff - executive producer (uncredited)
Cast: Peter Sellers - Group Captain Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott - Gen. Buck Turgidson
Sterling Hayden - Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn - Col. Bat Guano
Slim Pickens - Maj. T.J. King Kong
Peter Bull - Russian Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky
James Earl Jones - Lt. Lothar Zogg
Tracy Reed - Miss Scott
Jack Creley - Mr. Staines
Frank Berry - Lt. H.R. Dietrich
Robert ONeil - Adm. Randolph
Music: Laurie Johnson
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
Plot: U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world ?
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The screenplay title is incorrectly spelled. It reads: Base on the book "Red Alert" by Peter George. This is pointed out on the DVD supplement about the making of the film.
Goofs: We know about 13 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Miscellaneous: The opening sequence contains the grammatically incorrect credit "Base on the book Red Alert by Peter George".
Trivia: There are 65 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- Peter Sellers was cast in four roles, but experienced problems when trying to develop a Texas accent for Maj. T.J. "King" Kong. After Sellers broke his ankle, Stanley Kubrick was forced to find another actor. Convinced that nobody could have acted the part as well as Sellers, Kubrick decided to cast someone who naturally fit the role. The producers first approached John Wayne, who did not even bother to respond, and "Bonanza" (1959) star Dan Blocker, who declined the role because of the scripts progressive political content. Remembering his work on the western One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Kubrick cast Slim Pickens as Kong, the gung-ho hick pilot determined to drop his bombs at any cost. Pickens was never shown the script nor told it was a black comedy; ordered by Kubrick to play it straight, he played the role as if it were a serious drama - with amusing results.
- George C. Scott was reputedly annoyed by the fact that Kubrick was pushing him into an overacting performance, even though his work on the film is now regarded as some of his best work onscreen. Although he vowed never to work with Kubrick again, Scott himself came to regard this as one of his favorite performances.
- Peter Sellers was paid $1,000,000 for his work on the film. Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".
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