Dr Strangelove is on TCM

[getbent]

I used to call myself Col Batguano, I once had someone page me as Colonel Batguano and when I went to the phone, the lady at the hotel said I was young to be a Colonel and I smiled and said, "well, I'm a spy, soooo" and grabbed the phone.

 

[bumnote]

It's the odd comments or line here and there that still crack me up decades after I saw it...
"You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do you?"

"Dimitri, I'm sorry that they're jamming your radar and flying so low; but, they're trained to do it. You know, it's initiative!"

"Be careful, Mr. President, he sounds drunk."

"He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigliebe."...which is German for Strangelove.

 

[mycroftxxx]

Kubrick planned on Sellers playing Major Kong as well, even began filming and Sellers wanted nothin to do with that role on top of the three others he was already playing.

Sellers managed to get Kubrick to cast Slim, and the rest is history.

The three roles are great but I respect him getting Kubrick to alter his plan on a film far more, Kubrick was a stubborn visionary.

Apparently Kubrick never told Slim Pickens that it was a comedy.
A young James Earl Jones as the B-52 navigator was perfect.

One of the four Kubrick films that are on my eight-or-ten-slot roulette wheel of favorite movies of all time.

 

[tomkatf]

Top three of all time for me…

 

[1guy]

I used to call myself Col Batguano, I once had someone page me as Colonel Batguano and when I went to the phone, the lady at the hotel said I was young to be a Colonel and I smiled and said, "well, I'm a spy, soooo" and grabbed the phone.

Col Batguano? Rotflmaooooo

Hearing that name, you might think it's just a weird pronounciation...but reading it?

Lmao

 

[Bellacaster]

One of my all time favorites! I used to have a Strangelove shirt back in high school. I just Googled it and some site has the exact shirt from the 90s and is asking $855 for it. Man I wish I would have saved all my shirts from back in the day.

Anyway, I just watched this with my 12 year-old daughter and she loved it. I was kind of relieved.

The What Went Wrong podcast just did an episode on the film and it's chock full of interesting information -

 

[tcadam]

Kubrick planned on Sellers playing Major Kong as well, even began filming and Sellers wanted nothin to do with that role on top of the three others he was already playing.

Sellers managed to get Kubrick to cast Slim, and the rest is history.

The three roles are great but I respect him getting Kubrick to alter his plan on a film far more, Kubrick was a stubborn visionary.

I'm drawing a blank, what was Sellers' third role (Mandrake, Strangelove, and...)?

 

[NewTimerJH]

Fail Safe was on the other night too...that is like a serious Dr. Strangelove.
Larry Hagman's first serious role, Henry Fonda as the president.
The producers of Fail Safe were accused of plagiarizing Dr. Strangelove.
They actually bought the film to prevent it's release till well after Dr. Strangelove!

Fail safe is one of my top ten favorites!

 

[Dostradamas]

I'm drawing a blank, what was Sellers' third role (Mandrake, Strangelove, and...)?

 

[bumnote]

I'm drawing a blank, what was Sellers' third role (Mandrake, Strangelove, and...)?

President Merkin Muffley....and ironically it's the only role in the film where he's not wearing his toupee.

Ranks up there with 'Kitty' Galore from "Goldfinger" for great movie character names from the 60s.

 

[getbent]

President Merkin Muffley....and ironically it's the only role in the film where he's not wearing his toupee.

Ranks up there with 'Kitty' Galore from "Goldfinger" for great movie character names from the 60s.
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nothing says 'come to mama' like a merkin!

 

[Knows3Chords]

"What an astonishingly good idea!"

 

[Stubee]

We watched it again a few weeks back. It never fails to entertain & impress!

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Thanks for telling me to check it, but I watched the Devil and Daniel Webster on TCM instead .

 

[Honga Man]

I'll take Fail Safe for the block, Peter.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Charlie Wilson’s War (funny)

Michael Clayton (great/so many perfect scenes)

I do need to see Strangelove again. It has been over 40 years and I know when I saw it… “Intro to film” at Oakland community college.

Through a curtain of smoke, because our professor always sat up in the front and smoked like a chimney the whole movie.

 

[bumnote]

I'll take Fail Safe for the block, Peter.

Throw in this one and you've got a trifecta of great movies...

Hey...remember when movies were actually pretty good and the big names of the day didn't want to look like some moron in a leotard and cape?

 

[Bellacaster]

Thanks for telling me to check it, but I watched the Devil and Daniel Webster on TCM instead .

Devil and Daniel Webster is another favorite of mine.

 

[tcadam]

President Merkin Muffley....and ironically it's the only role in the film where he's not wearing his toupee.

Ranks up there with 'Kitty' Galore from "Goldfinger" for great movie character names from the 60s.
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Thanks! To be honest, I'm not sure I ever knew that was Sellers.

 

[black_doug]

Throw in this one and you've got a trifecta of great movies...
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Hey...remember when movies were actually pretty good and the big names of the day didn't want to look like some moron in a leotard and cape?

Agreed. Good movie.

Another good one directed by Stanley Kubrick is Spartacus.