“Dr. Strangelove” quotes
(1964)
Stanley Kubrick
directed this movie
in 1964
Title Dr. Strangelove
Original title Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Year 1964
Director Stanley Kubrick
Genre Comedy
Original title Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Year 1964
Director Stanley Kubrick
Genre Comedy
Plot – A psychopath air force general orders a squad of airplanes, equipped to carry nuclear bombs, to fly over the Soviet Union. Then he locks himself in the base leaving everyone unable to enter in it. Both senior US officials and the most important Soviet Union leaders try to stop the threat of a nuclear war.
All actors – Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull, James Earl Jones, Tracy Reed, Jack Creley, Frank Berry, Robert O'Neil, Glenn Beck, Roy Stephens, Shane Rimmer, Hal Galili, Paul Tamarin, Laurence Herder, Gordon Tanner, John McCarthy, , Victor Harrington, Peter Roy, Burnell Tucker
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“It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.”
“Well boys, we've got three engines out, we've got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio's gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower, why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... But we've got one thing on those Ruskies… At this height, why they might harpoon us, but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in...” (continue)(continue reading)
“[the President calls the Soviet Premier]
Hello?... Uh... Hello D- uh hello Dmitri? Listen uh uh I can't hear too well. Do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? … Oh-ho, that's much better... yeah... huh... yes... Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri... Clear and plain and coming through fine... I'm coming through fine, too, eh?......” (continue)(continue reading)“Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.”
“Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines.”
“I want you to remember one thing, the folks back home is a countin' on ya, and by golly we ain't about to let 'em down. Tell you somethin' else. If this thing turns out to be half as important is I figure it just might be, I'd say that you're all in line for some important promotions and personal citations when this thing's over with. That goes...” (continue)(continue reading)
“Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones.”
“Sir! I have a plan! [standing up from his wheelchair] Mein Führer! I can walk!”
“- Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
- Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add...” (continue)(continue reading)“Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.”
“- Col. 'Bat' Guano: You wanna know what I think?
- Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Yes!
- Col. 'Bat' Guano: I think you're some kind of deviated pervert. I think General Ripper found out about your perversion, and that you were organizing some kind of mutiny of perverts. Now move!”“Goldie, how many times have I told you guys that I don't want no horsing around on the airplane?”
“Your Commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own.”
“Mister President, we must not allow a mine shaft gap!”
“You're talking about mass murder, general, not war!”
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
“It would not be difficult, Mein Führer.”
“Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?”
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