"boasted the acclaimed director Sidney Lumet and the first-rate dramatic actors Henry Fonda as the American president and Walter Matthau as the advisor to the Pentagon, Professor Groeteschele. Kubrick decided to throw a legal wrench into ""Fail Safe""s production gears. Lumet recalled in the documentary ""Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove"": ""We started casting. Fonda was already set ... which of course meant a big commitment in terms of money. I was set, Walter [Bernstein, the screenwriter] was set ... And suddenly, this lawsuit arrived, filed by Stanley Kubrick and Columbia Pictures."" Kubrick argued that ""Fail Safe""s own source novel"
"Academy Film Awards. In 1963, Stanley Kubrick cast Sellers to appear in ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"" alongside George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens. Sellers and Kubrick got on famously during the film's production and had the greatest of respect for each other, also sharing a love of photography. The director asked Sellers to play three roles: US President Merkin Muffley, Dr. Strangelove and Group Captain Lionel Mandrake of the RAF. Sellers was initially hesitant about taking on these divergent characters, but Kubrick prevailed. According to some accounts,"
"Gilbert Taylor Gilbert Taylor, B.S.C. (12 April 1914 – 23 August 2013) was a British cinematographer, best known for his work on films such as ""Dr. Strangelove"", ""A Hard Day's Night"" (both 1964), ""Repulsion"" (1965), ""The Omen"" (1976), and the original ""Star Wars"" (1977). In the course of his career, he collaborated with directors like Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Mike Hodges. He was nominated for two BAFTA Awards, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Society of Cinematographers. The son of a Hertfordshire builder, Taylor grew up in Bushey Heath. A paternal uncle was a"
"Madness of King George"". He was also nominated for Academy Awards for his work on ""Around the World in 80 Days"", ""The Spy Who Loved Me"", and ""Addams Family Values"". He received the Art Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ken Adam Sir Kenneth Hugo Adam, (born Klaus Hugo Adam in Germany; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German-British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for ""Dr. Strangelove"". Ken Adam won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction. Born in"
"and the influx of oil wealth helped disguise the many systemic flaws in the Soviet economy. At the same time, the entire Eastern Bloc continued to experience massive stagnation, consumer goods shortfalls in shortage economies, developmental stagnation and large housing quantity and quality shortfalls. The preoccupation of Cold War themes in popular culture continued during the 1960s and 1970s. One of the better-known films of the period was the 1964 black comedy ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers. In the film, a mad United States"
"married in 1967. The couple had a son and daughter; Taylor also had a son and daughter from an earlier marriage. He died on 23 August 2013, aged 99, at his home on the Isle of Wight. Gilbert Taylor Gilbert Taylor, B.S.C. (12 April 1914 – 23 August 2013) was a British cinematographer, best known for his work on films such as ""Dr. Strangelove"", ""A Hard Day's Night"" (both 1964), ""Repulsion"" (1965), ""The Omen"" (1976), and the original ""Star Wars"" (1977). In the course of his career, he collaborated with directors like Roman Polanski, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and Mike"
"is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. Departing from traditional Hollywood farce and screwball, director and comedian Jerry Lewis used satire in his self-directed films ""The Bellboy"" (1960), ""The Errand Boy"" (1961) and ""The Patsy"" (1964) to comment on celebrity and the star-making machinery of Hollywood. The film ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964) starring Peter Sellers was a popular satire on the Cold War. Contemporary popular usage of the term ""satire"" is often very imprecise. While satire often uses caricature and parody, by no means all uses of these or other humorous devices are satiric."
"Ken Adam Sir Kenneth Hugo Adam, (born Klaus Hugo Adam in Germany; 5 February 1921 – 10 March 2016) was a German-British movie production designer, best known for his set designs for the James Bond films of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for ""Dr. Strangelove"". Ken Adam won two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction. Born in Berlin, he relocated to England with his Jewish family at the age of 13 soon after the Nazis came to power. Together with his younger brother Denis Adam he was one of only three German-born pilots to serve in the British"
"in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to entertainment and charity. A preserved example of the WD Austerity 2-10-0 class of steam locomotives at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is named ""Dame Vera Lynn"". The 1964 film ""Dr. Strangelove"" directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, ends with a montage of nuclear explosions accompanying Vera Lynn's song ""We'll Meet Again"". Vera Lynn's visit to the Burma front during World War Two was included in the British television program ""The World at War"", a documentary series broadcast in 1973-74 and narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier. She is"
"could result in the erroneous go-command depicted in the novel and the movie. ""Fail Safe"" and ""Dr. Strangelove"" were both produced by Columbia Pictures in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. ""Strangelove"" director Stanley Kubrick, who adapted Peter George's novel ""Red Alert"", insisted that the studio release his movie first (in January 1964). ""Fail Safe"" so closely resembled ""Red Alert"" that Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. The case was settled out of court. Fail Safe (1964 film) Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War"
"""Stranger than Paradise"" (Jim Jarmusch, 1984), ""Blue Velvet"" (David Lynch, 1986), ""The Civil War"" (Ken Burns, 1990), ""The Crying Game"" (Neil Jordan, 1992), ""Mulholland Drive"" (David Lynch, 2001), ""Brokeback Mountain"" (Ang Lee, 2005), ""The Imitation Game"" (Morten Tyldum, 2014), ""Sully"" (Clint Eastwood, 2016), ""Moonlight"" (Barry Jenkins, 2016), and ""Lady Bird"" (Greta Gerwig, 2017). Since 1995 a special medallion has also been presented annually, usually to a non-filmmaker who has had a major impact on American or international film culture. Past recipients include Milos Stehlik (founder of Facets Multi-Media), HBO, the French film magazine ""Positif"", Ted Turner, and Janus Films. Each"
"director to win more than one Oscar for directing. Lean had his greatest box-office success with ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965), a romance set during the Russian Revolution. The film, based on the banned novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a brilliant and warm-hearted physician and poet (Omar Sharif) who, while seemingly happily married into the Russian aristocracy, and a father, falls in love with a beautiful abandoned young mother named Lara (Julie Christie) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War. Initially, reviews for ""Doctor"
"Lionel Barrymore Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ""A Free Soul"" (1931), and remains best known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Potter in Frank Capra's 1946 film ""It's a Wonderful Life"". He is also particularly remembered as Ebenezer Scrooge in annual broadcasts of ""A Christmas Carol"" during his last two decades. He is also known for playing Dr. Leonard Gillespie in MGM's"
"social commentary. ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Alfie"" (1966) and ""The Graduate"" (1967) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously. In 1970, the black comedies ""Catch 22"" and ""M*A*S*H"" reflected the anti-war sentiment then prevalent, as well as treating the sensitive topic of suicide. ""M*A*S*H"" would be toned down and brought to television in the following decade as a long-running series. Among the leading lights in comedy films of the next decade were Woody Allen and Mel Brooks. Both wrote, directed"
"of various key scenes from the film being advertised, often augmented with large, descriptive text describing the story, and an underscore generally pulled from studio music libraries. Most trailers had some form of narration, and those that did featured stentorian voices. In the early 1960s, the face of motion picture trailers changed. Textless, montage trailers and quick-editing became popular, largely due to the arrival of the ""new Hollywood"" and techniques that were becoming increasingly popular in television. Among the trend setters were Stanley Kubrick with his montage trailers for ""Lolita"" (1962), ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying"
"the ""Hollywood"" model was challenged by many film makers. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino called for a politically engaged Third Cinema in contrast to Hollywood and the European auteur cinema. Further, the nuclear paranoia of the age, and the threat of an apocalyptic nuclear exchange (like the 1962 close-call with the USSR during the Cuban missile crisis) prompted a reaction within the film community as well. Films like Stanley Kubrick's ""Dr. Strangelove"" and ""Fail Safe"" with Henry Fonda were produced in a Hollywood that was once known for its overt patriotism and wartime propaganda. In documentary film the sixties saw"
"in from the Cold"" ""' Ruth Gordon - ""Inside Daisy Clover"" ""' David Janssen - ""The Fugitive"" ""' Anne Francis - ""Honey West"" ""' ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."" Winners (minimum 1 win) Nominees (minimum 2 nominations) 23rd Golden Globe Awards The 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honouring the best in film for 1965 films, were held on 28 February 1966. ""' Omar Sharif - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' Lee Marvin - ""Cat Ballou"" ""' Samantha Eggar - ""The Collector"" ""' Julie Andrews – ""The Sound of Music"" ""' David Lean - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""The Sound of Music"" ""'"
"23rd Golden Globe Awards The 23rd Golden Globe Awards, honouring the best in film for 1965 films, were held on 28 February 1966. ""' Omar Sharif - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' Lee Marvin - ""Cat Ballou"" ""' Samantha Eggar - ""The Collector"" ""' Julie Andrews – ""The Sound of Music"" ""' David Lean - ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""Doctor Zhivago"" ""' ""The Sound of Music"" ""' ""Darling"" ""' ""Juliet of the Spirits (Giulietta degli spiriti)"", Italy ""Doctor Zhivago"" - Maurice Jarre ""' ""Forget Domani"" - ""The Yellow Rolls-Royce"" ""' ""Doctor Zhivago"" - Robert Bolt ""' Oskar Werner - ""The Spy Who Came"
"Doctor in Love Doctor in Love is a 1960 British comedy film, the fourth of the seven films in the ""Doctor"" series, starring James Robertson Justice as Sir Lancelot Spratt and Michael Craig as Dr Richard Hare. This was the first film in the series not to feature Dirk Bogarde, although he did return for the next film in the series ""Doctor in Distress"". Dr Richard Hare is a recently graduated medical intern at St Swithins Hospital. When his new romantic interest, nurse Sally Nightingale, suddenly leaves the hospital, he is devastated. He also leaves after being offered a job"
"Wonderwall (film) Wonderwall is a 1968 psychedelic film by first-time director Joe Massot that stars Jane Birkin, Jack MacGowran, and Iain Quarrier, and features Richard Wattis and Irene Handl, and a cameo by Dutch collective The Fool, who were also set designers for the film. The film is also remembered for its soundtrack, composed by then-Beatle George Harrison. The reclusive, eccentric scientist Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) has two next-door neighbours: a pop photographer (Iain Quarrier) and his girlfriend/model Penny Lane (Jane Birkin). Discovering a beam of light streaming through a hole in the wall between them, Collins follows the light"
"films were made dealing with what could go terribly wrong with the policy of keeping nuclear-bomb carrying airplanes at the ready: ""Dr. Strangelove"" (1964) and ""Fail Safe"" (1964). The strategy of MAD was fully declared in the early 1960s, primarily by United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. In McNamara's formulation there was the very real danger that a nation with nuclear weapons could attempt to eliminate another nation's retaliatory forces with a surprise, devastating first strike and theoretically ""win"" a nuclear war relatively unharmed. True second-strike capability could be achieved only when a nation had a ""guaranteed"" ability to"
"is, saying to Mr. Staines (Jack Creley) that it is not a ""Kraut name"", Staines responds that Strangelove's original German surname was ""Merkwürdigliebe"" (""Strange love"" in German) and that ""he changed it when he became a citizen."" Twice in the film, Strangelove accidentally addresses the president as ""Mein Führer"". Dr. Strangelove did not appear in the book ""Red Alert"". The character is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, mathematician and Manhattan Project principal John von Neumann, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's rocket development program recruited to the US after the war), and"
"Herman Kahn Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire ""Dr. Strangelove"". His theories contributed heavily to the development of the nuclear strategy of"
"Doctor Strange (2016 film) Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the fourteenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Scott Derrickson, who wrote it with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular character, along with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. In ""Doctor Strange"", surgeon Stephen Strange learns the mystic arts after"
"the world. His work on ""Dr Strangelove"" opened the doors to lucrative work as a screenwriter and script doctor, and allowed him to greatly increase his fee, from the reported $2,000 he received for ""Dr Strangelove"" to as much as $100,000 thereafter. During the latter half of the 1960s Southern worked on the screenplays of a string of ""cult"" films. His credits in this period include ""The Loved One"" (1965), ""The Collector"" (1965), ""The Cincinnati Kid"" (1965), ""Casino Royale"" (1967), ""Barbarella"" (1968), ""Easy Rider"" (1969), ""The Magic Christian"" (1969), and ""End of the Road"" (1970) . In early 1964 Southern"
"as a stylistic homage to Kubrick, ""particularly ""2001: A Space Odyssey""– opening with a similar prologue that jumps in stages over the years and using a soundtrack throughout that employs anachronistic music."" Although Michael Moore specializes in documentary filmmaking, at the beginning of shooting his only non-documentary feature film ""Canadian Bacon"", he sat his cast and crew down to watch Kubrick's ""Dr. Strangelove"". He told them, ""What this movie was in the '60s, is what we should aspire to with this film."" Moore had previously written Kubrick a letter telling him how much ""Bacon"" was inspired by ""Strangelove"". Film director"
"Dr. Strangelove, Wernher von Braun (from Nazi rocket-scientist to NASA director) has survived every US administration since World War II and is coming to life. Today the technology exists to weaponize space, a massive American industry thrives, and nations are maneuvering for advantage. Among the challenges faced by the production team was the difficulty to get the authorization to bring a camera inside the Air Force Space Command bases and other US military and government locations. After four months of investigation, the US Department of Defense's public relations office decided to grant Denis Delestrac and his crew the access to"
"82, ""Arthur's Hallowed Ground"", starring Jimmy Jewel, which was made for television. Freddie Young Frederick A. Young, (9 October 1902 – 1 December 1998), (often credited as F.A. Young) was a British cinematographer. He is probably best known for his work on David Lean's films ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) and ""Ryan's Daughter"" (1970), all three of which won him Academy Awards for Best Cinematography. He was also director of photography on more than 130 films, including many other notable productions, such as ""Goodbye, Mr Chips"" (1939), ""49th Parallel"" (1941), ""Lust for Life"" (1956), ""The Inn of the"
"long illness. Jud Taylor Judson Taylor (February 25, 1932 – August 6, 2008) was an American actor, television director and television producer. Taylor is perhaps best known for his directorial work on 1960s television classics such as """", ""Dr. Kildare"", and ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."". In the early 2000s, he directed several episodes of """". Taylor also directed more than 40 made-for-TV movies, including the award-winning ""Tail Gunner Joe"" and ""Foxfire"", and the final film appearances of both Susan Hayward (in ""Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole"" (1972)) and David Janssen (in ""City in Fear"" (1980)). In the late 1950s and early"
"2008, the Moscow–Washington hotline has been a secure computer link over which messages are exchanged by a secure form of email. Several people came up with the idea for a hotline. They included Harvard professor Thomas Schelling, who had worked on nuclear war policy for the Defense Department previously. Schelling credited the pop fiction novel ""Red Alert"" (the basis of the film ""Dr. Strangelove"") with making governments more aware of the benefit of direct communication between the superpowers. In addition, Parade magazine editor Jess Gorkin personally badgered 1960 presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and buttonholed the Soviet"
"downplayed – a perception Kubrick evidently did little to address. Kubrick found that ""Dr. Strangelove"", a $2 million production which employed what became the ""first important visual effects crew in the world"", would be impossible to make in the U.S. for various technical and political reasons, forcing him to move production to England. It was shot in 15 weeks, ending in April 1963, after which Kubrick spent eight months editing it. Peter Sellers again agreed to work with Kubrick, and ended up playing three different roles in the film. Upon release, the film stirred up much controversy and mixed opinions."
"Jud Taylor Judson Taylor (February 25, 1932 – August 6, 2008) was an American actor, television director and television producer. Taylor is perhaps best known for his directorial work on 1960s television classics such as """", ""Dr. Kildare"", and ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."". In the early 2000s, he directed several episodes of """". Taylor also directed more than 40 made-for-TV movies, including the award-winning ""Tail Gunner Joe"" and ""Foxfire"", and the final film appearances of both Susan Hayward (in ""Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole"" (1972)) and David Janssen (in ""City in Fear"" (1980)). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, prior"
"George C. Scott George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in the film ""Patton"", as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's ""Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb"", and as Ebenezer Scrooge in Clive Donner's 1984 film ""A Christmas Carol"". He was the first actor to refuse the Academy Award for Best Actor (for ""Patton"" in 1970), having warned the Academy of Motion"