442 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
442 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)
- Based on the novel ``Red Alert'' and originally conceived as a tense
thriller about the possibility of accidental nuclear war. Director
'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) was working on the script when he noticed that many
scenes he had written were actually quite funny.
- 'Peter Sellers' (qv) plays three roles, and was to play Major T. J. Kong as
well. He broke his leg, so the role went to 'Slim Pickens' (qv).
- Major Kong's comment about the survival kit (``a fella could have a pretty
good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff,'') originally refered to Dallas
instead of Las Vegas, but was overdubbed after President Kennedy's
asassination in Dallas.
- Kubrick intended the film to end with a custard pie fight between the
Russians and the Americans in the War Room. The footage was shot, but
he decided not to use it because he considered it too farcical to fit in
with the satirical nature of the rest of the film.
- General Ripper ('George C. Scott' (qv)) was not scripted to fall over in the
war room when he gets excited, but when it happened, Kubrick decided it
was in character, and left it in.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [three-way]: USA vs. Russia vs. General Ripper.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [faces]: General Turgidson, General Ripper,
and Dr. Strangelove.
- DIRTRADE(Stanley Kubrick): [114]: Name of the message decoder ``CRM-114''.
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