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

Or How I Stopped Working And Learned to Love Old Movies

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Reviewed April 17, 2020

Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers help folks see the lighter side of apocalypse with their 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove. What happens when a paranoid general (Sterling Hayden) decides to protect American bodily fluids by ordering fighter pilot Slim Pickens to drop 50 megaton bombs on unsuspecting Soviet targets? Can George C. Scott and a Nazi scientist convince the US President there’s an upside to starting World War III? Find out when you become a Now Playing Podcast Patron and join Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob in the bunker this April.

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