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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Dr. Strangelove
3. Originally Peter Sellers was cast in 4 roles, but only played 3 (Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove) when he faced problems in trying to develop a Texas accent for Major T. J. 'King' Kong.
Two Hours to Doom. Based on Peter George's 'Two Hours to Doom', also known as 'Red Alert', and originally conceived as a tense thriller about the possibility of accidental war. But, Stanley Kubrick while working on the script realized that many scenes he had written were actually quite funny.
| Major T. J. 'King' Kong's comment about the survival kit ('a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff') originally referred to what city? | Dr. Strangelove
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Dallas. Originally referred to Dallas instead of Las Vegas, but was overdubbed after President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas.
| General Turgidson (George C. Scott) was not scripted to do what in the War Room when he gets excited? | Dr. Strangelove
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Fall. When George C. Scott fell over in the War Room, it wasn't in the script, but Stanley Kubrick decided it was in character, and left it in.
Merkwurdigliebe. When Strangelove is talking about the doomsday device, Turgidson says, 'Strangelove. What is that, German?' The reply he receives is 'He changed his {name;} it was originally Merkwurdigliebe' -- which means Strangelove in German.
| Kubrick intended to end 'Dr. Strangelove' with what type of fight between the Americans and Russians? | Dr. Strangelove
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custard pie. The custard pie scene was shot but Kubrick changed his mind on it because it was too farcical to fit in with the satirical nature of the rest of the film. Another reason for the cut might have been when President Muffley took a pie in the face and fell down, prompting Gen. Turgidson to cry, 'Gentlemen! Our gallant young president has just been struck down in his prime!' Written before J.F.K's assassination this line showed eerie similiarity to it, and the scene would have been cut anyway, or at least this line in particular.
| Along with Stanley Kubrick who also helped write the screenplay for 'Dr. Strangelove'? | Dr. Strangelove
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Terry Southern. Often the forgotten writer of 'Dr. Strangelove', Terry Southern is the person who gave us General Ripper's fixation with bodily fluids and Colonel 'Bat' Guano's certainty that Mandrake was a pervert of some sort.
Slim Pickens. After Peter Sellers turned down the role because he couldn't develop a Texas accent Kubrick cast Slim Pickens. But, Pickens was never shown the script, nor told it was a black comedy ordered by Kubrick to play it straight, he played the role as if it were a serious drama - with amusing results.
| "Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb" was based on the novel "Red Alert", written by which author? | Dr. Strangelove
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Peter George. A former officer in the Royal Air Force, George was concerned that the United States and the Soviet Union would face each other down in nuclear conflict. Along with American satirist Terry Southern, he based the black-comedy screenplay on his deadly serious novel.
Columbia Pictures. Though Columbia has its name all over "Dr. Strangelove", the movie was acutally filmed at Shepperton Studios outside London, England. The late Peter Sellers was going through a divorce at the time of shooting and was unable to leave the country.
Stanley Kubrick. All the directors here left their mark on the motion picture industry. "Dr. Stranglove" happened to be one of the many gems left by the late Stanley Kubrick, whose own fear of nuclear war led him to work on this movie.
| The opening sequence of the movie depicts which specific military activity? | Dr. Strangelove
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Midair refueling. Establishing a sexual overtone to the movie, the opening sequence shows the refueling boom of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker making contact with a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. The two aircraft stay mated until the end of the opening credits.
| What is the name of the fictional American air force base from which the B-52 bombers are dispatched to attack the Soviet Union? | Dr. Strangelove
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Burpleson Air Force Base. During the scenes in which base commander General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Sellers) fight off army troops, a large aerial photo of what is supposed to be the air base is shown on the wall. That photo is actually of Heathrow Airport in London.
Barksdale (Boosier City, LA), Beale (Yuba County, CA) and Brooks (San Antoino, TX) are all real US Air Force bases.
| Who was originally tabbed to play the role of the B-52 bomber commander, Major T.J. "King" Kong? | Dr. Strangelove
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Peter Sellers. Had Peter Sellers not suffered a broken leg during filming, he would have wound up playing four roles in "Dr. Strangelove". As it was, though, he relinquished the role to Slim Pickens. Kubrick remembered Pickens from his work in another movie and brought him onboard to play Kong.
A missile complex. In one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history, Major Kong finds himself free-falling atop a multi-megaton hydrogen bomb destined to destroy a Soviet ICBM base. The crew, low on fuel and in desperate need of ditching, choose the first available target of opportunity to destroy. This act prompts the Soviet ambassador (Peter Bull) to set off the powerful Doomsday Device.
With a pie fight in the War Room. The classic ending of "Dr. Strangelove"--the atomic-bomb montage with Vera Lynn singing "We'll Meet Again" in the background--almost wound up being a custard-pie free-for-all. The pie-fight scene was indeed shot and made quite a mess of the War Room set, but Stanley Kubrick ultimately decided it was just too silly. All this after President Merkin Muffley (Sellers) admonishes the Soviet ambassador (Bull) and General Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) with the classic quote, "You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!", earlier in the picture.
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