Columbia Pictures
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
My rating: 4 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Sony)
Insane US military commander Sterling Hayden orders a fleet of bombers to attack Russia with atomic bombs. In the Pentagon war room, the president and his cabinet are helpless to stop them without a code only Hayden knows and will not reveal. They order an attack on the base, but meanwhile must negotiate with Russian leaders over their impending nuclear annihilation. It turns out the Russians have a deterrent device of their own, the doomsday machine, and they can't stop it either. Kubrick's scathing black comedy has lost none of its biting satire of inept politicians and war mongering militarists. The final image of Slim Pickens riding a nuclear warhead to oblivion is one of the cinema's all-time greats. Peter Sellers gives probably his best performance(s) in multiple roles.
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