Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.
- usa president
- general
- cold war
- strategic air command
- dark comedy
- nuclear missile
- satire
- black and white
- cynical
- war room
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Sellers
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake / President Merkin Muffley / Dr.
George C. Scott
General 'Buck' Turgidson
Sterling Hayden
Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn
Colonel Bat Guano
- Slim Pickens — Major "King" Kong
- Peter Bull — Botschafter De Sadesky
- James Earl Jones — Lt. Lothar Zogg
- Tracy Reed — Miss Scott
- Jack Creley — Mr. Staines
- Frank Berry — Lt. Dietrich
- Robert O'Neil — Adm. Randolph
- Glenn Beck — Lt. Kivel
- Roy Stephens — Frank
- Shane Rimmer — Capt. 'Ace' Owens
- Hal Galili — Burpelson AFB Defense Team Member
- Directed
- Stanley Kubrick
- Written
- Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern
Production
- Studio
- Hawk Films, Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
