Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb // Bomb Run: Part 2 Enjoy Part 1 at the following link: • Dr. Strangelove Bomb ...
The hyper-competency of the bomber's flight crew stands in sharp satirical contrast to the ludicrous idiocy of the national command authorities. I suppose things haven't changed much since then.
Indeed. To a certain extent you get to see why the General is so excited that his boys will finally get to show how good they are...except that it means the end of the world.
People don’t realize during this time period there were 25 B52’s flying over Northern Canada 24 hours a day ready to launch their nuclear weapons at Russia. The shortest distance to Russia was over the North Pole. The pilots called it “flying the chrome dome”.
también volaban sobre la península Ibérica para reportar carburante El accidente nuclear de Palomares del 17 de enero de 1966 , alrededor de las 10.30h, fue todo primero un choque entre dos aeronaves del USAF sobre el territorio de Palomares (Almería) . El evento se convirtió en un accidente nuclear por la dispersión de material nuclear contenido en las bombas atómicas que transportaba una de las aeronaves. El accidente en su día atrajo la atención de las más altas figuras del gobierno español. El hecho tiene todavía hoy secuelas de contaminación radioactiva con cierto riesgo para la salud ambiental sobre partes de este territorio. El accidente Durante una operación de aprovisionamiento de combustible dos aviones se tocaron en vuelo a una altitud 30.000 pies, en el curso de unas maniobras de la Fuerza Aérea Estadounidense. Eran un Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker , y un Boeing B-52 Stratofortress . En el siniestro, ocurrido en la mañana del 17 de enero, ambos aviones se desintegraron instantáneamente y cayeron en llamas sobre la tierra y el mar. Siete tripulantes murieron y cuatro lograron saltar en paracaídas. El Bombardero B-52 llevaba cuatro bombas termonucleares que cayeron, tres en el suelo y una en el mar. Las tres bombas que cayeron en tierra cayeron en zonas habitadas, así ocurrió que un pedazo acabara por hacer de pisapapeles, o que los niños jugaran alrededor del artilugio, y que un miembro de la Guardia Civil se tapara por la noche con el paracaídas de la bomba. [ hace falta citación ] Cada una de las bombas tenía una potencia de 1,5 megatones , unas 100 veces la de las bombas de Hiroshima , o Nagasaki . El sumergible Alvin En cuanto a la bomba caída en el mar pudo ser reencontrada sólo gracias a la intervención de unos pescadores que la habían visto caer. Parece que se produjo un escape de elementos radiactivos, por lo que la zona todavía está bajo la vigilancia del CSN , y el gobierno español , en 2004 , expropió hacia 9 hectáreas afectadas por el accidente. El B-52 transportaba al menos cuatro, quizás cinco, bombas termonucleares B28RI de 1,5 megatones-cuatro bombas Mk 28 según Raimon Guitart. [1] Dos permanecieron intactas, una en tierra y la otra en mar, y fueron recuperadas. Se dice que la del mar fue recuperada por un pescador local, pero probablemente lo hizo el minisubmarino Alvin de la US Navy a 869 m de profundidad ya 5 millas de la costa (quizás, siguiendo las instrucciones de Francisco Simó Orts, quien había presenciado el accidente, vecino de Águilas , Murcia, conocido como "Paco el de la bomba", fallecido en 2003). Aparte de este minisubmarino parece que también participaron el Aluminaut y el CURV-I ( cable-controlled underwater recovery vehículo ), otros dos submarinos pequeños. Otras dos bombas cayeron en el suelo cerca del pueblo y los explosivos convencionales detonaron, esparciendo unos 20 kilogramos-4,5 kg según R. Guitart de plutonio altamente radiactivo por los alrededores: es extremadamente difícil que una bomba nuclear o termonuclear estalle accidentalmente, pero los explosivos de tiro e implosión que contiene sí pueden hacerlo con relativa facilidad. Esto costó al ejército estadounidense una operación de limpieza de 80 millones de dólares de la época, retirando 1.400 toneladas de tierra y tomateras que fueron transportadas a Savannah River . Se calcula que el 15% del plutonio, unos 3 kg en óxidos y nitratos, fue esparcido en forma pulverizada y fue irrecuperable. Actualmente, Palomares es la localidad más radioactiva de España y de toda Europa. Manuel Fraga Iribarne , ministro del turismo en la época, hizo la famosa astracanada de bañarse en sus playas para que el turismo no se asustara, probablemente sabiendo que el efecto de la radioactividad en estos casos no es puntual , sino acumulativo.
@@tomasbenedictomaza Fantastically detailed post, and an incident that I had hitherto been unaware of. Thanks for the upload. A lot of people try to discredit Wikipedia all the time, but I find it to be pretty reliable.
@@sillyone52062 and to think he ended up being a general (I believe in the movie Twilight’s Last Gleaming) flying about aboard the US “Looking Glass” aircraft!
This clip has been butchered. Left out the best part where Major Kong is sitting on top of the thermonuclear bomb swatting shorted out wiring with his cowboy hat.
This was James Earl Jones' very first film role. George C. Scott recommended Jones to Stanley Kubrick because Scott had worked with him in a production of The Merchant of Venice for the long-running New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park a year earlier and was greatly impressed with Jones' performance as the Prince of Morocco.
@@jamescollinson2179he's perfect here. When flustered note how he blinks more often, just as you would. It may seem like a small detail, but back then it was impressive attention to realistic detail.
"If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!" General "Buck" Turgidon wasn't wrong.
@@HH-mw4sq I recall seeing a documentary somewhere describing the clip you quoted was actually George C Scott fooling around. They were filming him without his knowledge, or if anything he didn’t really pay mind to it. Apparently, he was very upset with Stanley Kubrick when they used it in the film.
I thought the effects were great, especially considering when the movie was made. The B-52 interior was totally convincingly accurate, even though it was a set. I don't think anyone but Kubrick would have insisted on such accurate looking details, then or later.
@@shadovanish7435 I read that during filming someone from the Air Force ask Kubrick who gave him classified information. Kubrick told hem it was all public information.
@@jcf20010 That's interesting. I did read that one part of the film is inaccurate. The planes had to receive a positive confirmation to go in order to attack via what they called (if I recall correctly) a Positive Control System. "Ripper" would not have had the ability or authority to order a nuclear attack. Now, of course, what would have actually happened in an emergency is unknown, but I suspect it would not have been this way. It is, of course, still a great movie.
17JUL2021 - SAC and USAF would not give visual access to bomber interior for set designers, so they improvised and mocked it based on numerous descriptions. When the movie premiered the Air Force wanted to know how the director got access to the interior of a bomber. Kudos to the prop master and set designer.
A friend of mine who did assistant grip work for the studios ..had been on the set a few times with Slim Pickens ....he told me he was the real deal...raised on a farm ....did some rodeoing...he had a ranch up towards the Sierras where he lived...he would drive down from his ranch onto the set with one of his big pick up trucks....haha...
@@gregoryj.m.8985 You're too right. In fact he got his stage name at a rodeo. The organiser looked at what was then a skinny youngster and said: "There'll be slim pickings for you here." (At least, that's the way he told it, and I'm very happy to believe him. Also, his brother joined the rodeo act and took the name 'Rich').
Badly edited. You included all of the technical stuff as they approached the target, but cut out Major Kong going back to the bomb bay and manually opening the doors and loosing the bomb, as well as several seconds of his descent. This largely kills the humor of the scene.
A friend of mine once told the story of running into Slim Pickens in Alaska and getting to know him a bit. My friend told the story that they filmed the H-bomb drop scene backwards with Slim Pickens and the bomb moving up rather than down and that Slim Pickens had to do the Yee Ha in reverse. It was a good story.
I'd guess plenty of the 1950's early television shows also were true cowboys, for it seems well over half of prime time shows were westerns. By the time 'Bonanza' was on, the era of true cowboys on TV shows had ended.
Kubrick always did meticulous research. There were enough open source materials for his set designers to pretty closely capture the interior of a B-52.
This film should have been a box office blockbuster if only it had not been released on November 22, 1963, this and Phil Spector’s Christmas album. Two classics destroyed by bad timing. Have a great day!
It's not like the helmet is going to offer additional protection. looked to me kind of like slapping a woman's ass on the last ride. Most won't let you use a helmet for that kind of thing.
@@robertschmidt7879 if the world is going to go poof, may as well wear your cowboy hat on the way down. Who’s gonna be around to criticize? Or long enough once acute radiation sickness set in? Although it would be funny to think if the hat survived in the blackened crater.
He is one of the first 'extra's that was noticed by later generations who were into Star Wars. Also possibly one of his first movie roles too. THAT film makes him more famous to me , than Star wars.
H. F. F. Dr. Strangelove : A piece of this copy is missing when the pilot shows up in the bomb bay and wires are sparking. He pulls out a knife and he climbs onto the bomb.
People don't know how great this movie is......I guess maybe it seems close to my heart. My father was an anti-sub hunter back in the 1960's and he would tell me stories about Russian subs....This movie is just a masterpiece..
In the event of loss of communication you carry out last orders received. This is why once the orders are given, you have to get the confirmation before the point of no return. If you get to the turn back point and don't have the confirmation order, you turn back. This was added after several times they didn't send every plane the orders to return , but the crews turned back when they saw the other bombers turn back. So many times we almost were destroyed by incompetent people who messed up
... and more than a couple of times when a very competent officer didn't set things off, due to just gut instinct ... Although, that saying those times were rare ... ... during the whole Cuba thing, Gen Curtis LeMay tried pushing JFK for an all out bombing attack, abet with conventional bombs, as the information about how many missiles, plus warheads, and especially those ready for launch w/ nuclear warheads attached, was sketchy, at best. Although much remains classified, what is known is there was far more fully, fueled, launch ready missiles than believed; so, if LeMay had his way (ha ...), chances are that not long after the first wave of B52s appeared on radar, much of the West Coast would've gone, either directly by air, and ground, bursts, and the fallout drift ... ... and as for Able Archer '83 ... yikes. One could make a decent claim that if Cuba was close, Able Archer, especially as Andropov put CnC of all his mobile launchers into the field, was closer yet ...
My personal favourite is when they dropped multi megaton bombs on North Dakota, where one was found hanging from a tree after it had accidentally deployed it's chute and all but one of its failsafes had actually failed-deadly.
@@MostlyPennyCat I don't remember what year, but there was a bomber crashing near Savannah Georgia, and they had a 10 MT nuclear weapon on board. They got permission and dropped it in the ocean. To this day, it is somewhere just off the coast of Hilton Head Island SC
In the episode of The Bionic Woman "Doomsday Is Tomorrow", the Air Force sends a B-52 to bomb the complex where Jamie & the A.L.E.X. 7000 are located. The bomber crew uses the same arming sequence, almost word for word.
Talk about "type cast". Slim was both a bronc rider AND a FAMOUS rodeo clown before he stumbled into acting. Who BETTER in Hollywood to ride that bomb down?
There were many great actors in this movie. Slim definitely shined. I was eight or nine the first time I saw this movie. Watching Slim ride the bomb to his death upset me a great deal. I loved him and his character. He was a fantastic actor.
Yes, it certainly is. Vera Lynn was known as the forces favourite girl, she brought hope to allied forces and POWs everywhere, especially in the Far East. Vera Lynn also invented the Wheel. Lol.
My favorite movie and the best scene. I knew people like this during the cold war. The wacky George C. Scott too. Look up Rear Admiral Butts, NISC in the 70's till 1982.😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😳 His retirement speech consisted of " it's them communists , those damn communists" (I was there for the speech). Unfortunately that communist label has been hijacked to mean democratic socialists, in this era. I (as an intelligence worker in the Navy during this era) I find this ridiculous comparison be stupid.
The world owes a great debt to Stanislav Petrov, who in real life didn't launch the russian nukes when his gut told him not to. Never got the recognition he deserved.
@@davesy6969 very true. Sad that he reportedly got shafted by his superiors after saving the world. Interesting (or scary) to think that the actions of a single lieutenant colonel in one of the world’s militaries and not government leaders prevented an accidental holocaust.
Nice to know that the Russians and Dr. Strangeloves' half-life calculations on the salted bombs' fallout was all wrong and the world was up and running again in a mere three decades! :D
Sometimes...I actually miss the Cold War. It was steady, predictable. It was our team and their team and now...I'm not even sure about our team. The nuclear triad, the Fulda Gap ...
@@jackford5185 All the scenarios I read in books and fiction and otherwise had something bad happening in a divided Berlin or the Persian Gulf first. I always figured every inch of the gap was mapped and presighted for artillery and we would use tactical nukes if the Russian penetration got far enough. I heard we had nuclear land mines and big bridges had slots to accept nuclear demolition charges.
Funny, I watched this film as a kid and really liked it for some strange reason. Some years later I enlisted in the USAF and was assigned to the Strategic Air Command, AKA SAC right out of Basic Training. First aircraft I got to work on was the B-52D at Carswell AFB TX. Years later I got to see this film on TV. I enjoyed it much more then and never realized how many famous or future famous people were in that film. Dom Deluise playing an Air Force Sergent, Peter Sellers and James Earl Jones who played Darth Vader among many other rolls, just to name a few. Then there was the ending of the film with Vera Lynn singing We'll Meet Again that has become kind of the unofficial theme song For SAC. It is still one of my old time favorites of the WWII area songs.
@@davidreed3250 You are correct, I should have stated that James Earl Jones only did the voice of Darth Vader. I didn't mean it to sound like he played Darth Vader. However he did play Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian. May the Star Wars Fans forgive me for that misstatement.
@@DickWeinerUSA Another good film, Fail Safe. I got a kick out of them showing B-58 Hustlers and calling them Vindicator Bombers. But I guess that goes under the heading of Artistic License. But in reality Dr Strangelove was somewhat of a relief comity. At that time people were building and stocking bomb shelters hoping to survive a nuclear war. Much like the preppers of today. As a kid in school, we all learned the duck and cover stuff. Like that was going to keep us alive from the blast or the radiation fall out. I still remember them installing glass windows with wire inside. They said it would keep it from smattering and causing deadly shards from killing us. Everyone was scared of "The Bomb"! Remember, the full name of the movie was "Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" The movie was a comedy, but not a parody of Fail Safe. Though both were released in 1964, Dr Strangelove was first, released in Jan 64, and Fail Safe was released in Oct 64. But it could have been somewhat of a parody of "The Mouse That Roared" that was released in the US on 26 Oct 59. Another great film that Peter Sellers stared in. The H Bomb was created in 1952. The book "The Mouse That Roared" the movie was based on was released in 1955 and featured a "Q" Bomb. At that time it seemed there was an alphabet soup of lettered Bombs and by the 1970's we did develop an "N" Bomb sort of. That was the Neutron Bomb. Developed to kill enemy personnel with little or no damage to structures and their equipment, with a very short radiation time afterwords. If I remember correctly, they could move in and take over that area within something like 24 hours or less after the bomb was detonated. If you have never seen the movie, you should. A little European Country "Grand Fenwick" decides to declare war on the US because they see that every country that looses to the US gets all kinds of aid. But Grand Fenwick wins the war, sort of.
Kubrick got a visit from the FBI and Airforce Intelligence, to see how he got the plans to the B-52 flight deck! The film was so well done, it looked real enough to fool them, but it was all created from publicly released documents.
I like how Jones, as the bombardier, at first, when the bomb-bay doors won't open, sounds scared. Very subtle acting. He gets back into the groove when he starts focusing on solving the problem, pushing the fear of failure away.
Peter Sellers wanted to play the bomber pilots role', too, thereby setting a record, but a tennis injury prevented him from entering the "cockpit", so Slim Pickens was called. Slim showed up wearing his cowboy hat, and was initially turned away, until it was realized who he was
I was a model obviously. Notice the small protrusions on the top of each wing located just inboard of the inner engines. That is where the thin metal wire was attached to suspend the model. I’m sure Kubrick was aware of the lack of deflection of the ailerons and rudder, but this movie was produced on a relatively low budget. At least with the model they did portray the wings deflected up in slight bend which is true to how the wings act in flight of a real B-52. This is called aerodynamic induced dihedral which helps lateral balance.
i had forgotten that it finishes with We'll Meet Again - the classic version was by Vera Lynn and was very much a symbol for the UK of the hope that one day, after Nazism was defeated, that life would return to normal
Vera Lynn's other great inspiring song was "The White Cliffs of Dover". We'll Meet Again" has had a revival in popularity in the U.K. during the Corona Virus Pandemic inspiring the British people that they will get through the Pandemic just as they did WW II. Vera Lynn died in 2020 at the age of 103.
My favorite movie of all time. My dad was a navigator with the 55TH SRW. We watched this movie all the time. My dad was a navigator on RB-47's. We were lucky. He came home every time. God bless the soldiers.
Whenever I read about the 55th SRW, I have a sad memory of September or October 1962. We lived in quarters on MacDill AFB in Tampa, and I was in 9th grade. The 306th BW was flying B-47s. Anyway one day a transient RB-47 from the 55th SRW stalled on takeoff, crashing off the end of the runway, over a railroad embankment, a chaiinlink fence, and almost took out the security shack at the main gate. Killed all three flight crew. I recall looking out the window of the school bus and seeing one of the huge landing gear in the middle of the blackened grassy area. Sad day. Glad your dad survived those years. Too many fine men did not.
I like that. The CRM auto destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up.😹😁 I wonder how accurate was the flight and bombing procedures were in this film. It looks very comprehensive and detailed.
Some of it is ridiculous. The command to switch "Pulse ident transponder to active" at 4:19 for example. Why would you want to identify your aircraft to enemy radar during a bomb run? LOL. And at 4:58 when the target comes into visual range, the aircraft is obviously so low that the bomb explosion would destroy it.
The hyper-competency of the bomber's flight crew stands in sharp satirical contrast to the ludicrous idiocy of the national command authorities. I suppose things haven't changed much since then.
Indeed.
To a certain extent you get to see why the General is so excited that his boys will finally get to show how good they are...except that it means the end of the world.
That's because the bomber crew wasn't told that they were shooting a comedy.
hyper competency indeed
Easily the most realistic part of the movie.
Yep! A very young James Earl Jones! 😎👍 One of the best actors ever!
People don’t realize during this time period there were 25 B52’s flying over Northern Canada 24 hours a day ready to launch their nuclear weapons at Russia. The shortest distance to Russia was over the North Pole. The pilots called it “flying the chrome dome”.
también volaban sobre la península Ibérica para reportar carburante
El accidente nuclear de Palomares del 17 de enero de 1966 , alrededor de las 10.30h, fue todo primero un choque entre dos aeronaves del USAF sobre el territorio de Palomares (Almería) . El evento se convirtió en un accidente nuclear por la dispersión de material nuclear contenido en las bombas atómicas que transportaba una de las aeronaves. El accidente en su día atrajo la atención de las más altas figuras del gobierno español. El hecho tiene todavía hoy secuelas de contaminación radioactiva con cierto riesgo para la salud ambiental sobre partes de este territorio.
El accidente
Durante una operación de aprovisionamiento de combustible dos aviones se tocaron en vuelo a una altitud 30.000 pies, en el curso de unas maniobras de la Fuerza Aérea Estadounidense. Eran un Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker , y un Boeing B-52 Stratofortress . En el siniestro, ocurrido en la mañana del 17 de enero, ambos aviones se desintegraron instantáneamente y cayeron en llamas sobre la tierra y el mar. Siete tripulantes murieron y cuatro lograron saltar en paracaídas. El Bombardero B-52 llevaba cuatro bombas termonucleares que cayeron, tres en el suelo y una en el mar.
Las tres bombas que cayeron en tierra cayeron en zonas habitadas, así ocurrió que un pedazo acabara por hacer de pisapapeles, o que los niños jugaran alrededor del artilugio, y que un miembro de la Guardia Civil se tapara por la noche con el paracaídas de la bomba. [ hace falta citación ] Cada una de las bombas tenía una potencia de 1,5 megatones , unas 100 veces la de las bombas de Hiroshima , o Nagasaki .
El sumergible Alvin
En cuanto a la bomba caída en el mar pudo ser reencontrada sólo gracias a la intervención de unos pescadores que la habían visto caer.
Parece que se produjo un escape de elementos radiactivos, por lo que la zona todavía está bajo la vigilancia del CSN , y el gobierno español , en 2004 , expropió hacia 9 hectáreas afectadas por el accidente. El B-52 transportaba al menos cuatro, quizás cinco, bombas termonucleares B28RI de 1,5 megatones-cuatro bombas Mk 28 según Raimon Guitart. [1] Dos permanecieron intactas, una en tierra y la otra en mar, y fueron recuperadas. Se dice que la del mar fue recuperada por un pescador local, pero probablemente lo hizo el minisubmarino Alvin de la US Navy a 869 m de profundidad ya 5 millas de la costa (quizás, siguiendo las instrucciones de Francisco Simó Orts, quien había presenciado el accidente, vecino de Águilas , Murcia, conocido como "Paco el de la bomba", fallecido en 2003). Aparte de este minisubmarino parece que también participaron el Aluminaut y el CURV-I ( cable-controlled underwater recovery vehículo ), otros dos submarinos pequeños. Otras dos bombas cayeron en el suelo cerca del pueblo y los explosivos convencionales detonaron, esparciendo unos 20 kilogramos-4,5 kg según R. Guitart de plutonio altamente radiactivo por los alrededores: es extremadamente difícil que una bomba nuclear o termonuclear estalle accidentalmente, pero los explosivos de tiro e implosión que contiene sí pueden hacerlo con relativa facilidad. Esto costó al ejército estadounidense una operación de limpieza de 80 millones de dólares de la época, retirando 1.400 toneladas de tierra y tomateras que fueron transportadas a Savannah River . Se calcula que el 15% del plutonio, unos 3 kg en óxidos y nitratos, fue esparcido en forma pulverizada y fue irrecuperable. Actualmente, Palomares es la localidad más radioactiva de España y de toda Europa.
Manuel Fraga Iribarne , ministro del turismo en la época, hizo la famosa astracanada de bañarse en sus playas para que el turismo no se asustara, probablemente sabiendo que el efecto de la radioactividad en estos casos no es puntual , sino acumulativo.
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Fantastically detailed post, and an incident that I had hitherto been unaware of. Thanks for the upload.
A lot of people try to discredit Wikipedia all the time, but I find it to be pretty reliable.
The bombardier, Lt Lothar Zogg, was played by James Earl Jones, of course, in his first film role, sixty years ago. RIP, James.
@@sillyone52062 and to think he ended up being a general (I believe in the movie Twilight’s Last Gleaming) flying about aboard the US “Looking Glass” aircraft!
Yes, good movie. RIP JEJ.
"The auto destruction mechanism blew itself up." Dark humor irony at it's best.
EMP wasn't fully understood at this point in time, but it could have done it.
“The auto-destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up”. Hilarious
A young James Earl jones,first movie
What a great career he has had!
And a young Dennis Hopper.
He played Othello on stage though
I JUST noticed him!!
Slim Pickins, they were all great!
RIP James Earl Jones.
I didn't know James Earl Jones was in this movie?
Just brilliant film making never to be approached by todays standards.
Amazing that 60 years later the U.S. is still flying B-52s at part of its nuclear deterrent.
Is that... James Earl Jones?
Yep!
Nope…Thulsa Doom
Yeppers
This clip has been butchered. Left out the best part where Major Kong is sitting on top of the thermonuclear bomb swatting shorted out wiring with his cowboy hat.
DITTO
Agreed, the best part is gone.
And where he goes through the survival kit. that is Classic
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You could have a hell of a weekend in Vegas with one of those.
@@jond1536 Well, I thought, wait.... wait your missing a part. But I guess that's how he put it together.
Dedication, determination and downright stubbornness...the BEST attributes of an American Fighting Man! ...and the choice of music was FABULOUS!
Protecting our precious bodily fluids.
Protecting the absolute crap out of 'em!!
It's good to know that before joining the Galactic Empire, Darth Vader was a crewman in USAF B-52 bomber.
This was James Earl Jones' very first film role. George C. Scott recommended Jones to Stanley Kubrick because Scott had worked with him in a production of The Merchant of Venice for the long-running New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park a year earlier and was greatly impressed with Jones' performance as the Prince of Morocco.
I know right...I had to rewind it twice just to make sure it was really James Earl Jones, and all I could think was Darth Vader was in the USAF!😂
@@jamescollinson2179he's perfect here. When flustered note how he blinks more often, just as you would. It may seem like a small detail, but back then it was impressive attention to realistic detail.
"If the pilot's good, see, I mean if he's reeeally sharp, he can barrel that baby in so low... oh you oughta see it sometime. It's a sight. A big plane like a '52... varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!"
General "Buck" Turgidon wasn't wrong.
@@HH-mw4sq I recall seeing a documentary somewhere describing the clip you quoted was actually George C Scott fooling around. They were filming him without his knowledge, or if anything he didn’t really pay mind to it. Apparently, he was very upset with Stanley Kubrick when they used it in the film.
@rafaelvargas3259 - Thanks, I didn't know that. It explains a lot. I wonder why he would be upset. It is one of his most iconic movie scenes.
@@HH-mw4sq typically the best photos are when we are truly natural :-) I have a hecka lot of ugly posed photos but a handful of decent surprise shots
A very young James Earl Jones...even back then he owns the screen when he's in the scene, or at least when his voice is......
...how I learned to stop worrying about special effects and love the film.
I thought the effects were great, especially considering when the movie was made. The B-52 interior was totally convincingly accurate, even though it was a set. I don't think anyone but Kubrick would have insisted on such accurate looking details, then or later.
@@shadovanish7435 I read that during filming someone from the Air Force ask Kubrick who gave him classified information. Kubrick told hem it was all public information.
I see what you did there😉
@@jcf20010 That's interesting. I did read that one part of the film is inaccurate. The planes had to receive a positive confirmation to go in order to attack via what they called (if I recall correctly) a Positive Control System. "Ripper" would not have had the ability or authority to order a nuclear attack. Now, of course, what would have actually happened in an emergency is unknown, but I suspect it would not have been this way. It is, of course, still a great movie.
Just after see moon landing video.
I love more this movie.
17JUL2021 - SAC and USAF would not give visual access to bomber interior for set designers, so they improvised and mocked it based on numerous descriptions. When the movie premiered the Air Force wanted to know how the director got access to the interior of a bomber. Kudos to the prop master and set designer.
My birthday. My dad was a navigator on RB-47's. He told me that it was spot on. The best inside story of a B-52.
I love how fundamentally, Major Kong is an extremely competent character who only sounds like a bumpkin.
Yes. Slim Pickens did some great work on screen, but this has to be his finest performance.
Both an aviator and an electrician.
A friend of mine who did assistant grip work for the studios ..had been on the set a few times with Slim Pickens ....he told me he was the real deal...raised on a farm ....did some rodeoing...he had a ranch up towards the Sierras where he lived...he would drive down from his ranch onto the set with one of his big pick up trucks....haha...
@@gregoryj.m.8985 He drove his truck from the Sierras to London?
@@gregoryj.m.8985 You're too right. In fact he got his stage name at a rodeo. The organiser looked at what was then a skinny youngster and said: "There'll be slim pickings for you here."
(At least, that's the way he told it, and I'm very happy to believe him. Also, his brother joined the rodeo act and took the name 'Rich').
One of the greatest movies of all time. James Earl Jones and Slim Pickens together is gold.
And the co-pilot is Shane Rimmer, the pilot of Thunderbird 1.
This film is absolutely brilliant. It beats to a pulp all the tech-filled, so-called action movies today.
They made movies in those day with plots and great actors.
Wow. I did not know James Earl Jones was in this..cool.
Cool, Major Kong takes us straight into a nice song
That part showing Slim Pickens riding the bomb down stuck in my mind since I was a kid.
I didn't remember him riding it backwards.
@@texasblueboy1508, I remember and loved that scene the most, especially riding that "brahma bull" backwards! A true rodeo hero! Thanks Slim!
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when the US invaded Iraq in 2003, there were cartoons of Bush Jr. In a cowboy outfit riding a bomb down to the target like he was on a wild bull.
Previous comment continued: There was even a picture of Bush Jr. photoshopped on top of the H-Bomb in Dr. Strangelove instead of Slim Pickens !
"I think the auto-destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up." Love the writing in this movie.
I thought that was funny too.
Badly edited. You included all of the technical stuff as they approached the target, but cut out Major Kong going back to the bomb bay and manually opening the doors and loosing the bomb, as well as several seconds of his descent. This largely kills the humor of the scene.
Ditto.
Agreed!!!
A friend of mine once told the story of running into Slim Pickens in Alaska and getting to know him a bit. My friend told the story that they filmed the H-bomb drop scene backwards with Slim Pickens and the bomb moving up rather than down and that Slim Pickens had to do the Yee Ha in reverse. It was a good story.
RIP James Earl Jones!
Slim Pickens "akk Major Knong " was one of the best character actors of his day he was also in 1941 captured in the Japanese Sub.
Is that a young James Earl Jones?
Yes.
One his early film roles.
Best voice in films
Slim Pickens was a true cowboy and use to Rodeo in his younger days...One of only a few actors that was
I'd guess plenty of the 1950's early television shows also were true cowboys, for it seems well over half of prime time shows were westerns. By the time 'Bonanza' was on, the era of true cowboys on TV shows had ended.
"You can't fight here....this is the War Room!!"
One of the absolute funniest lines ever!!!
I heard the DoD wasn't too happy with such a precise representation of a B-52 interior lol.
If you've ever been in Buffs, you know how accurate the interiors are.
Kubrick always did meticulous research. There were enough open source materials for his set designers to pretty closely capture the interior of a B-52.
@@pbrennan True, and Kubrick was paid a visit by government officials to explain the accuracy of the interior.
Stanley Kubrik and Peter Sellers equals genius.
This film should have been a box office blockbuster if only it had not been released on November 22, 1963, this and Phil Spector’s Christmas album. Two classics destroyed by bad timing.
Have a great day!
OK, except for taking off his helmet and putting on his cowboy hat, that is one squared away officer. And I’d be proud to fly with him
I wouldn't mine if an officer changed his helmet for a cowboy hat. I'd probably ask him permission if I can wear one.
May as well be comfortable.
It's not like the helmet is going to offer additional protection. looked to me kind of like slapping a woman's ass on the last ride. Most won't let you use a helmet for that kind of thing.
Slim Pickens was actually an accomplished high-time pilot himself.
@@robertschmidt7879 if the world is going to go poof, may as well wear your cowboy hat on the way down. Who’s gonna be around to criticize? Or long enough once acute radiation sickness set in? Although it would be funny to think if the hat survived in the blackened crater.
Holy sh*t! Is that Young James Earl Jones?!
Yes it is...
No. It's young Darth Vader.
RIP Vera Lynn
James Earl Jones and
Slim Pickens (?)
Yeah. Be at that lunch.
OMG Jamed Earl Jones in this movie. And he is about 22 years old.
So this video cut out the most important part, how Major Kong opened the bomb bay doors!.
R.I.P. Slim Pickens
Never knew Death Vader flew nuclear missions.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force.
He is one of the first 'extra's that was noticed by later generations who were into Star Wars. Also possibly one of his first movie roles too. THAT film makes him more famous to me , than Star wars.
H. F. F. Dr. Strangelove : A piece of this copy is missing when the pilot shows up in the bomb bay and wires are sparking. He pulls out a knife and he climbs onto the bomb.
When this Film was made the BUFF was already 10 years old, and it is still in service.
People don't know how great this movie is......I guess maybe it seems close to my heart. My father was an anti-sub hunter back in the 1960's and he would tell me stories about Russian subs....This movie is just a masterpiece..
In the event of loss of communication you carry out last orders received.
This is why once the orders are given, you have to get the confirmation before the point of no return.
If you get to the turn back point and don't have the confirmation order, you turn back.
This was added after several times they didn't send every plane the orders to return , but the crews turned back when they saw the other bombers turn back.
So many times we almost were destroyed by incompetent people who messed up
... and more than a couple of times when a very competent officer didn't set things off, due to just gut instinct ...
Although, that saying those times were rare ...
... during the whole Cuba thing, Gen Curtis LeMay tried pushing JFK for an all out bombing attack, abet with conventional bombs, as the information about how many missiles, plus warheads, and especially those ready for launch w/ nuclear warheads attached, was sketchy, at best. Although much remains classified, what is known is there was far more fully, fueled, launch ready missiles than believed; so, if LeMay had his way (ha ...), chances are that not long after the first wave of B52s appeared on radar, much of the West Coast would've gone, either directly by air, and ground, bursts, and the fallout drift ...
... and as for Able Archer '83 ... yikes. One could make a decent claim that if Cuba was close, Able Archer, especially as Andropov put CnC of all his mobile launchers into the field, was closer yet ...
@@nigelft "...abet with conventional bombs..."
* *Albeit* with conventional bombs. "Abet" is a different word, as in "aid and abet."
My personal favourite is when they dropped multi megaton bombs on North Dakota, where one was found hanging from a tree after it had accidentally deployed it's chute and all but one of its failsafes had actually failed-deadly.
@@MostlyPennyCat I remember that
@@MostlyPennyCat I don't remember what year, but there was a bomber crashing near Savannah Georgia, and they had a 10 MT nuclear weapon on board. They got permission and dropped it in the ocean. To this day, it is somewhere just off the coast of Hilton Head Island SC
Slim Pickens will forever live on with his iconic scene.
But the best line in the movie is “gentleman! There is no fighting in the war room”
😂😂😂😂😂
What about 'Someday I'm going to make you...
Mrs. (Buck) Tergeson !, Honey....dont forget to say your prayers !.
In the episode of The Bionic Woman "Doomsday Is Tomorrow", the Air Force sends a B-52 to bomb the complex where Jamie & the A.L.E.X. 7000 are located. The bomber crew uses the same arming sequence, almost word for word.
Damn… you’re a hardcore nerd. I’m going to have to look that episode up.
The one and only flying cowboy, Slim Pickens in his element, what a wonderful actor RIP Slim.
Agreed. Let us also remember George C. Scott, another great actor in the film. RIP Gen. Patton
Talk about "type cast". Slim was both a bronc rider AND a FAMOUS rodeo clown before he stumbled into acting. Who BETTER in Hollywood to ride that bomb down?
There were many great actors in this movie. Slim definitely shined. I was eight or nine the first time I saw this movie. Watching Slim ride the bomb to his death upset me a great deal. I loved him and his character. He was a fantastic actor.
He REALLY did ride wild horses and bronco's in the rodeo before he became an actor..and he was good at iT!!! I LOVE Dr. Strangelove!!!
Slim....the pickings will be tough in Hollywood.....what a voice for character actor to have....👍
they should have went to that weekend in Vegas instead
Is that Vera Lynn singing at the end?
Yes!
Yes, it certainly is.
Vera Lynn was known as the forces favourite girl, she brought hope to allied forces and POWs everywhere, especially in the Far East. Vera Lynn also invented the Wheel. Lol.
Was that James Earl Jones, voice of Darth Vader and CNN?
yes
Wow Darth Vader and Slim Pickens were on the same flight.
If there's ever been a better ending made for a movie, I've never seen it.
cut out the best part
That’s what I thought!
😠
1:12 love the “52” casting a B-17 shadow on the ground below.
Good eye
excellent catch......
you think it was intentional as a joke by Kubick?
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They weren’t able to get inside the BUFF, so they used an old B-17 for the scenery shots.
I saw that too. I was all like, heeeeeeyyyy....
OMG, James Earl Jones is the bombardier.
He would never unleash anything so deadly again until the development of the Death Star.
My favorite movie and the best scene. I knew people like this during the cold war. The wacky George C. Scott too.
Look up Rear Admiral Butts, NISC in the 70's till 1982.😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😳
His retirement speech consisted of " it's them communists , those damn communists" (I was there for the speech). Unfortunately that communist label has been hijacked to mean democratic socialists, in this era. I (as an intelligence worker in the Navy during this era) I find this ridiculous comparison be stupid.
Why would anybody want to look up Rear Admiral Butts ? Sounds a bit suspect to me, probably a Courts Martial offence. !!
Lol.
Respects...
Works nowadays, dunnit?
The world owes a great debt to Stanislav Petrov, who in real life didn't launch the russian nukes when his gut told him not to.
Never got the recognition he deserved.
@@davesy6969 very true. Sad that he reportedly got shafted by his superiors after saving the world. Interesting (or scary) to think that the actions of a single lieutenant colonel in one of the world’s militaries and not government leaders prevented an accidental holocaust.
It's takes real professionalism. To keep your composure when you are blowing up the world.
Bad edit. It doesn't even show why the Major got onto the bomb. It wasn't just to take a ride.
ahh to check damage to realease cables..mechanical
Bomb bay doors malfunction.
So that plane was flying at about 40 miles per hour.
I noticed that
@@randyblackburn9765 And about 300 feet altitude.
@@donwayne1357 yeah all while hanging from a wire
@@donwayne1357 Not good for dropping Nucs.
The B52's navigator (1:02) was also the co-pilot of the Aries-B moon lander in "2001: A Space Odyssey". ;-)
Nice to know that the Russians and Dr. Strangeloves' half-life calculations on the salted bombs' fallout was all wrong and the world was up and running again in a mere three decades! :D
James Earl Jones - 'Where's Maj KonG"?, "eeeehhhhhaaaaaaaaa"!
Who chopped up this film? Kubrick had it perfect! "Negative function--light red!"
I don't like this upload, because of the cuts that were made to the sequence.
Put Major Kong (Slim Pickens) lines back into the clip.
Agree, having seen this move so many times, I could tell parts were missing all throughout.
Sometimes...I actually miss the Cold War. It was steady, predictable. It was our team and their team and now...I'm not even sure about our team. The nuclear triad, the Fulda Gap ...
I don't. We were always one computer glitch away from Armagedon. These days I'm afraid people are forgetting what Nukes are capable of.
I wrote oplans for the Fulda Gap defense as an intel officer. Haven't heard Fulda mentioned in years.
@@jackford5185 All the scenarios I read in books and fiction and otherwise had something bad happening in a divided Berlin or the Persian Gulf first. I always figured every inch of the gap was mapped and presighted for artillery and we would use tactical nukes if the Russian penetration got far enough. I heard we had nuclear land mines and big bridges had slots to accept nuclear demolition charges.
@@jackford5185OPLAN 4102!
Or even the Marne Divide! @@jackford5185
Wonderful Slim Pickens!
"I think the Auto Destruct Unit got hit, and blew itself up"
LOL! Nice line....
Funny, I watched this film as a kid and really liked it for some strange reason. Some years later I enlisted in the USAF and was assigned to the Strategic Air Command, AKA SAC right out of Basic Training. First aircraft I got to work on was the B-52D at Carswell AFB TX. Years later I got to see this film on TV. I enjoyed it much more then and never realized how many famous or future famous people were in that film. Dom Deluise playing an Air Force Sergent, Peter Sellers and James Earl Jones who played Darth Vader among many other rolls, just to name a few. Then there was the ending of the film with Vera Lynn singing We'll Meet Again that has become kind of the unofficial theme song For SAC. It is still one of my old time favorites of the WWII area songs.
Dom DeLuise was in 'Fail Safe." "Strangelove" seems to have been a parody of "Fail Safe."
James Earl Jones was the voice of Darth Vader, who was acted by David Prowes.
@@davidreed3250 You are correct, I should have stated that James Earl Jones only did the voice of Darth Vader. I didn't mean it to sound like he played Darth Vader. However he did play Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian.
May the Star Wars Fans forgive me for that misstatement.
There shall be no fighting in the war room.
@@DickWeinerUSA Another good film, Fail Safe. I got a kick out of them showing B-58 Hustlers and calling them Vindicator Bombers. But I guess that goes under the heading of Artistic License.
But in reality Dr Strangelove was somewhat of a relief comity.
At that time people were building and stocking bomb shelters hoping to survive a nuclear war. Much like the preppers of today. As a kid in school, we all learned the duck and cover stuff. Like that was going to keep us alive from the blast or the radiation fall out. I still remember them installing glass windows with wire inside. They said it would keep it from smattering and causing deadly shards from killing us. Everyone was scared of "The Bomb"!
Remember, the full name of the movie was "Dr Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" The movie was a comedy, but not a parody of Fail Safe. Though both were released in 1964, Dr Strangelove was first, released in Jan 64, and Fail Safe was released in Oct 64. But it could have been somewhat of a parody of "The Mouse That Roared" that was released in the US on 26 Oct 59. Another great film that Peter Sellers stared in.
The H Bomb was created in 1952. The book "The Mouse That Roared" the movie was based on was released in 1955 and featured a "Q" Bomb. At that time it seemed there was an alphabet soup of lettered Bombs and by the 1970's we did develop an "N" Bomb sort of. That was the Neutron Bomb. Developed to kill enemy personnel with little or no damage to structures and their equipment, with a very short radiation time afterwords. If I remember correctly, they could move in and take over that area within something like 24 hours or less after the bomb was detonated.
If you have never seen the movie, you should. A little European Country "Grand Fenwick" decides to declare war on the US because they see that every country that looses to the US gets all kinds of aid. But Grand Fenwick wins the war, sort of.
As fast as the B-52 could fly, they would have covered the 10-mile distance in less time than shown in the movie. But it was still funny!
Thats what you call 'Licence. Stretching a point, as they say.
Good film though.....
The bomber was half-crippled by the missile hit
This clip is butchered, you cut out all the Kong scenes!
Great movie, scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!
I didn't know it was a satire. I didn't know who Peter Sellers was let alone how many he was. And Kong's last ride knocked me sideways.
The nav sounds like KITT from Knightrider! 🤣🤣🤣
James Earl Jones was always fantastic
That plane is amazing, it can pitch/roll/yaw with zero change to rudder/aileron/elevators.
Only the best for Mr. Kubrick.
One of the all time greatest movie ever
It was. "Fail Safe" is the serious version. You should see it also.
Kubrick got a visit from the FBI and Airforce Intelligence, to see how he got the plans to the B-52 flight deck! The film was so well done, it looked real enough to fool them, but it was all created from publicly released documents.
I like how Jones, as the bombardier, at first, when the bomb-bay doors won't open, sounds scared. Very subtle acting. He gets back into the groove when he starts focusing on solving the problem, pushing the fear of failure away.
Way to Go Major Kong. That's called"Stay on Misssion"
Why not? There wouldn't have been much to go back to.
@@marcschneider4845 Yes Marc. WE CAME CLOSE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. WHOLE WORLD A GIANT CHERNOBYL
A real "Luke I am your father" moment at 1:12, the shadow of the Boeing B-17 photoship (filming the background) seen below the Boeing B-52 (model).
Yes, the point was that the ideal of total war like in WW II was obsolete in the nuclear age. The survival.of the Human race depended on it
There was a B-17 model in General Ripper's office as well.
Vladimir Putin told Oliver Stone he has never watched this movie
He wouldn’t understand it, would probably wonder where the satire was
He wouldn’t understand it, would probably wonder where the satire was
"Shiiiit, A guy could have a great time in Vegas with all this stuff"
in the original script it was Dallas, but the change was to Vegas because of the Kennedy assassination...
Slim Pickens was a champion rodeo rider before his movie career
Peter Sellers wanted to play the bomber pilots role', too, thereby setting a record, but a tennis injury prevented him from entering the "cockpit", so Slim Pickens was called.
Slim showed up wearing his cowboy hat, and was initially turned away, until it was realized who he was
CPT SLIM PICKENS, ,greatest stage name of all time , and a great actor !!!
And Darth vader lol
Slim pickens was perfect in this film
it is funny how the plane moves around but the tail doesn't move nor do the flaps.
I thought I was the only one who caught that!!
If you look at the B-52’s shadow, you’ll see that the real airplane is a B-17 flying the low level!
I was a model obviously. Notice the small protrusions on the top of each wing located just inboard of the inner engines. That is where the thin metal wire was attached to suspend the model. I’m sure Kubrick was aware of the lack of deflection of the ailerons and rudder, but this movie was produced on a relatively low budget. At least with the model they did portray the wings deflected up in slight bend which is true to how the wings act in flight of a real B-52. This is called aerodynamic induced dihedral which helps lateral balance.
Come on, it is pre-Top Gun. Brilliant movie.
Maj. Kong my hero. He went above and beyond. R.I.P.
The tune at the end is actually quite beautiful.
We’ll meet again by Vera Lynn. She actually passed away during the quarantine.
@@themanwithallthewrongopini3551 She was 103 yrs. old when she died.
'I think the self destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up...' so many great lines in this movie.
Why the ridiculous edits? That's a down vote for me.
One of the best movie ever.
One of the greatest satires in Cinema History.
Made it out before Fail Safe which was the same only not a comedy.
But unfortunately yanks don't do satire, as commentaters here thinks it is just a war film "it's a antiwar film you morons" 🤔😵😂🏴
When I first saw the movie I can't be the only one who was willing them on to complete their bomb run.
Several scenes missing from this clip.
Where the hell is Major Kong??
i had forgotten that it finishes with We'll Meet Again - the classic version was by Vera Lynn and was very much a symbol for the UK of the hope that one day, after Nazism was defeated, that life would return to normal
Glad to know a countryman of mine knows about Vera Miles and appreciates one of the best movies ever produced.
@@oswaldoramosferrusola5235 Peace on you Oswaldo.
Vera Lynn's other great inspiring song was "The White Cliffs of Dover". We'll Meet Again" has had a revival in popularity in the U.K. during the Corona Virus Pandemic inspiring the British people that they will get through the Pandemic just as they did WW II. Vera Lynn died in 2020 at the age of 103.
Hey that’s one HELL of a way to go out!
My favorite movie of all time. My dad was a navigator with the 55TH SRW. We watched this movie all the time. My dad was a navigator on RB-47's. We were lucky. He came home every time. God bless the soldiers.
Whenever I read about the 55th SRW, I have a sad memory of September or October 1962. We lived in quarters on MacDill AFB in Tampa, and I was in 9th grade. The 306th BW was flying B-47s. Anyway one day a transient RB-47 from the 55th SRW stalled on takeoff, crashing off the end of the runway, over a railroad embankment, a chaiinlink fence, and almost took out the security shack at the main gate. Killed all three flight crew. I recall looking out the window of the school bus and seeing one of the huge landing gear in the middle of the blackened grassy area. Sad day. Glad your dad survived those years. Too many fine men did not.
I love this scene. A determined American crew ready to make mission no matter what. The sense of duty.
I like that. The CRM auto destruct mechanism got hit and blew itself up.😹😁 I wonder how accurate was the flight and bombing procedures were in this film. It looks very comprehensive and detailed.
Some of it is ridiculous. The command to switch "Pulse ident transponder to active" at 4:19 for example. Why would you want to identify your aircraft to enemy radar during a bomb run? LOL. And at 4:58 when the target comes into visual range, the aircraft is obviously so low that the bomb explosion would destroy it.
Apparently the procedure was close enough to the actual thing that it got some extra attention from the Air Force.