Suggests: HFA Screening DR. STRANGELOVE

Structured like an unstoppable locomotive accelerating towards a brick wall, or like an act of intercourse building inexorably to climax, DR. STRANGELOVE offers cinema’s most cheekily provocative dramatization of nuclear warfare and the human drive to self-annihilation. It does so, however, without venturing onto the battlefield. Instead, the film concerns the flurry of backroom negotiations triggered on American soil when Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) orders an airborne B-52 to preemptively bomb the Soviet Union to ease his paranoid concerns of threatened national virility. Featuring unforgettably exaggerated performances from Hayden, George C. Scott and Slim Pickens, and three all-time turns from Peter Sellers, the film generates its scathing comedy less from physical combat than from diabolical twists of linguistic logic and verbal sparring matches, many of which play out in an awe-inspiring approximation of the Pentagon War Room.

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