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

Promo for the TCM Big Screen Classics and Fathom Events screening of Dr. Strangelove, 1964, nationwide in theaters on September 18 and 21.

In the war room, President Muffley (Peter Sellers) entertaining advice from General Turgidson (George C. Scott), whose renegade commander has ordered a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.

President Muffley (Peter Sellers) asks Ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) why the Soviets would build a "Doomsday Machine," leading to the first appearance of the title character (also Sellers), in the war room during the nuclear crisis, in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.

Director Stanley Kubrick executes this exchange mostly in one take, Lieutenant Mandrake (Peter Sellers) confronting General Ripper (Sterling Hayden) about clear evidence that there's not a war on, in Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.

Major "King" Kong (Slim Pickens) on his strategic bomber gets word from radio-man Goldberg (Paul Tamarin) of unexpected orders, Lt. Zogg (James Earl Jones) voicing the crews' concerns, in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.

TCM Original Promo for our January 2012 Guest Programmer, the celebrated director and producer James L. Brooks, appearing with Robert Osborne on Tuesday, January 10th, starting at 8pm ET.

Peter Sellers is an RAF officer, the President and the title character, all facing the end of the world in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964).