Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

“The hot-line suspense comedy.”

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers), a British RAF exchange officer, wakes to find that a mad American general has triggered a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union. President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers) and his war room scramble to call back the bombers, but one B-52 is already past recall. Kubrick shoots the end of the world in fluorescent rooms and cramped airplane corridors.