re: Dr. Strangelove

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Don't forget Keenan Wynn as Col Bat Guano. "You'll have to answer to the Coca Cola company."

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I didn't mean to dismiss him, but his role was smaller - he held his own with Sellers and that was not easy to do.

For that matter, Peter Bull was great the Soviet Ambassador. When you think about James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed and Shane Zimmer - every speaking role was very well done. While that was more common for the period (let's face it - acting, across the board, was better from the mid-50s to the early-to-mid 70s), the absurdity of the material makes the acting (and directing) more impressive in Strangelove.

I don't throw the word genius around too often, but you can argue at least five worked on Strangelove:

Kubrick
Sellers
George C. Scott
Terry Southern
Ken Adam

Throw in the great cinematographer Gilbert Taylor and some perfectly cast character actors like Hayden and Slim Pickens

hard to frick that up

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I don't get the humor.....I was told I "had to have been there" during the Cold War to understand it completely.

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When i first watched it that is how i felt but as i got a little older then rewatched it i feel in love with it. The phone call to the Russian president is what gets "of course i wanted to speak to you"
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