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Even though this film is a dark comedy, the bomber crew are portrayed as skilled professionals -- they attend to their stations upon receipt of the alert, execute damage control actions by the book, and do their duties to the best of their abilities. I really appreciate that Kubrick made them funny without making them buffoons.
I always loved Slim Pickens in every Western movie he was in that I saw. His great role as the B-52 flight commander in Dr. Strangelove made the whole movie for me. One of the best films ever made. A signal event of the Cold War era.
@@stewiechen5208 the original Fantasia. My "desert island" movie. Ain't been nothing like it before or since. They tried a revamp and it was good but for me, not as ground breaking.
My other most favorite movie is Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, staring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Interesting that both were black & white films.
Since Plan R was not a thing and could not happen, Fail Safe which came out at about the same time was scarier. That depicted a more plausible scenario.
Ridley Scott before Production and set construction at Shepperton for ALIEN, showed this movie to his set designers and techs because he wanted the interior sets of the Nostromo just like the cramped confined B-52 interior we see in this movie, which ultimately he pulled off. The missile blast fire you see the B-52 deal with is an exact copy of the fire breakout when the Nostromo lands on the Alien planet, Ridley Scott was very influenced by this Stanley Kubrick classic. :-)
I saw a documentary about the making of movie that mentioned how the US military thought that the filmmakers had obtained secret records of B52 equipment to make such a realistic mockup of the interior of one outfitted for nuclear bombing runs. Turns out that the art director had used photos of an actual B52 from a Life magazine feature on the Air Forces SAC forces from a few years earlier!
I flew B-52's in the early 70's. Don't believe the cockpit was ever classified. The aircraft's "Dash-1" manual certainly was not classified and had a complete layout of the cockpit instruments.
I remember watching a seattle supersonics game back in the '90's. I heard Kevin Colabro shout " fly'n chickens in a barnyard "i was cracking up. But nobody got the reference.
a friend of mine told me his dad had worked on some of those planes in the film, the numbers are visible on a big enough screen. if those are H models some of them are still flying. i am not former military but i grew up across Lake Worth, TX from the flight line at Carswell AFB and they are old friends. i used to row my little boat across the lake and hang out under the end of the runway and wave at them when they came in from patrol. they always acknowledged my wave.....something about a plane carrying that many megatons dipping a wing seconds before touching down.....
Sterling Hayden was priceless as General Jack Ripper. Slim Pickens was perfect too. But my favorite line is when Keenan Wynn's character objects to shooting open the Coke machine for change to call Washington because it's "private property" until Mandrake says he'll take responsibility and then Wynn's character says, "OK, but you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
Countless dead pan lines in this all-time classic! But for some reason, my personal favorite was, major, the auto di struct must have gotten hit and blue itself up.
No problem. Got your point about the "auto destruct." I hadn't caught that ever before. Nice work. How's that for your international commie conspiracy?!
Supposedly (if this is not true it’s still a good story) when Slim Pickens was cast as “Major Kong” he showed up in England where the movie was filmed wearing a cowboy hat, blue jeans, and boots. The production staff thought that he had shown up in character, not realizing he was just a good ol’ southern boy.
As a crewmeber on AC-130H. Hearing the various stations call outs brings back some shit I thought was gone forever. Ironic, that we watched this movie way back when, and now it feels all too real. Damn. Too all you guys that have moved on. We did not know then, whatvwe know now. But we know. Peace.
I was watching Jeopardy last night and one of the questions was “who is this actor?” It was a photo of Peter Sellers and none of the contestants knew it. Don’t watch these clips. Find the film and watch whole thing. It’s a masterpiece. It’s only about 90 minutes long and we’ll worth it.
I saw this as a 11 year old on a cruise boat. I was so struck by it that I hummed the military hymne for days so that I would never forget the movie. 30 years later on Dutch TV I watched this movie and suddenly this music!! Bingo!
The thing is Major Kong isn’t even a bad guy in the movie. He’s a good soldier, is professional, is initially in disbelief when he hears about Attack Plan R but afterwards pulls himself and his crew together and does his mission. He has some fun when he rides the missile but comparing him to the “leaders” and generals back home he seems to be the only one with functioning braincells
Remember, anti-aircraft missiles at the time were small nuclear devices, so they only needed to get within a few miles of their target. See the Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missiles. The Soviets had similar devices.
I read that the CIA thought Kubrick and his set designer must have had access to secret B-52 plans and data, which of course they hadn't, so accurate was the set and procedures.
Having worked on B-52's in the Air Force my general impression is that they somehow had gained a general knowledge of the design of the B-52's interior, including the double deck design and the crew's seating positions. The pilot's instrument panel looks approximately correct but that would make sense because it only has typical aircraft instruments on it such as an attitude indicator, airspeed indicator and an altimeter. They also knew it had eight engines so it would have eight throttles and eight sets of engine instruments. Most of the other stuff in back like the CRM-114 and close ups of lights and switches were obviously made up and improvised. I read somewhere that the Air Force had allowed a few pictures of just the forward cockpit of a B-52 to be published in a magazine and that the set designers had studied those. Also, they may have found out additional details about the general layout of the crew compartment from some former B-52 crewman or from workers at Boeing.
Dr Strangelove, Fail Safe, On the Beach, The Bedford Incident, my fav nuke war films they don't make anymore. All with a superb cast and top notch acting.back then, drama was at its best without today's CGI.
Dr. Strangelove was the first feature film appearance of James Earl Jones. Kubrick's next movie was 2001: A Space Odyssey, followed by A Clockwork Orange which featured David Prowse as Julian. Prowse would later star in Star Wars as Darth Vader with Jones as Vader's voice.
I read in one of the comments that Stanley Kubrick was denied access to the B-52 cockpit so he could copy the interior.Due to the Cold War going on he was denied the request, so he had to improvise.Watching this clip I am amazed how all the switches and gauges make it look like it's the real thing.He was a true genius!
Ken Adam based his design on a simple picture of the cockpit panel on a book cover, according to the Behind the Scenes feature of the movie. Even though he just guessed, it was so accurate.
I was watching this with my dad in the early 70 something and remember he was a crew chief on a B52C and work on B47 before that and ask him how close to real thing he started laughing and just said dam close from what he remember from working on them
The B-52 "Dash 1" manual showing the cockpit layout was never classified, that I remember. There was nothing on the cockpit's front panel that "gave away" any secrets.
It's pretty well known that they recreated the interior of the plane so well that the US Government thought there was a leak, as at the time it was still highly classified information. But the part I find the most funny is how accurate they got the pilot. I personally know several military pilots that would absolutely wear a cowboy hat while flying.
He was a sex-obsessed war-mongering psycho, like most of the characters in the movie. That was Kubrick's whole point of the movie, that these clowns thought nuclear war was just another game that they could play, and come out of it with some 'important citations.'
@@trvman1 Effects of nuclear blast are not infinite and constant. They don't go 100% until the max radius and then sharply drop to 0. There are obviosly distances where you won't evaporate instantly, but still be in danger of being hit by debris or broken parts of the building.
Before this, Pickens was just a character actor in westerns. After this, he always had work. Sellers was supposed to have this part also, but he had a cast which could be hidden in the other three parts, but not the pilot part.
At the beginning, PIckens was incensed at Kubrick for telling Pickens that this was a deadly serious movie. But it made Pickens so famous, he would get things like hotel rooms and expensive meals for free, and he ended up loving his role.
@@PointyTailofSatan That's often how it goes with acting. A role you take for the money but which you consider unimportant, or even dislike, ends up defining your career. (Alec Guinness was very unhappy at the end of his life with the fact that he was going to be remembered for some silly space opera, not any of his 'serious' roles.)
Good grief! I didn't know that those birds been around for that long. They certainly saved our bacon during the Gulf War... *Operation Secret Squirrel: the story of the top-secret ultra-long range B-52 Stratofortress mission that opened strikes of Operation Desert Storm* - (The Aviation Geek Club) _Once “Secret Squirrel” kicked off Desert Storm operations, the B-52 continued playing a critical role throughout the campaign. In fact nearly 70 B-52G crews flew 1,741 missions totaling 15,269 combat hours during which 27,000 tons of munitions were dropped._ theaviationgeekclub.com/operation-secret-squirrel-the-top-secret-ultra-long-range-b-52-stratofortress-mission-that-opened-strikes-of-operation-desert-storm
No they're not. We have 46 B-52s capable of nuclear delivery. We have 400 minuteman ICBMs but our biggest punch are the 20 Ohio class ballistic missile submarines.
I think one of the genius aspects of this movie is how the crew here are presented. In the end, if the Leper Colony succeeds, it’s the end of the world. But you can’t help but root for them. They are doing the best they can with what they’ve been told. They don’t know what their actions will do. And the use of When Johnny Comes Marching Home in their scenes…
In some of his other films Kubrick would insert references to the CRM-114 in Dr Strangelove. In A Clockwork Orange one of the mind control drugs administered to Alex is called Serum 114.
"I do not avoid women Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence". Best line of the movie. Keenan's best line was "Try any perversions in there and I'll blow your head off". George C Scotts best was "Gee I sure we had one of those doomsday machines" Peter Sellers "Can you turn down the music a skosh Dimitry?" Slim Pickens "Nuclear combat Toe to Toe with the Russkies" Richard Bull "I must say that's an amazingly good idea you have doctor" all to the tune of "When Johnny comes marching home"". By far the best movie ever made.
The line I laughed loudest at ("you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company, notwithstanding) is when George C. Scott, in the White House Com Center, says "Of course we don't want to start a war with the Russians - but, this is a good opportunity for us to catch 'em with their pants down".
I’ve recommended watching this movie to better than a hundred young people. Almost all have never heard of it. I’ve lost count of how many thank me for recommending the film. Most absolutely love it.
Wouldn't the rads have killed the crew instently at the distance of 5280ft. Or 1mile. As thats so close it's considered a direct hit. I admite the movie would be over with unless some serious flight computer was set to fly straight to the target then detonate the nuclear bomb. I think air burst was considered worse that ground burst. The boomd had a 30 mile burst. So can anyone belive a bomb shelter dug over 35 or 40 miles deep in the bed rock then sealed in lead and concrete? With over 1000 etc survivers in it, and self suficient food and tec. For pepole to have survived they would have to have all the resources to live independently on the moon. And probably at lest 1 million people who were so conditioned for underground endurance they have to mentally be a different species! yet that's the age my parents lived through. The age of zero suriveal potential! Probably the reason Prozac was mass produced, and dustributed widly in the USA.
@@daniellafferety4025 Instant deaths from gamma exposure are mostly a myth (unless it is intense enough to evaporate you). It usually takes about a week to a month for the destruction of DNA and consequent end of protein synthesis to kill an exposed person. Ground to Air nuclear missiles tend to be low yield (20kt was typical for the Nike Hercules) and are lethal out to about 1.5 kilometres - basically if the plane survived so would you because the aircraft structure would fail due to overpressure before a lethal radiation dose is received.
An old repeated fail is the 360° radar sweep. Done in Top Gun an many other films. There are no 360° sweep radars, that I know of, on B-52s unless they have special modified pods added to the bomb bay area on the exterior of the aircraft.
When I first viewed so very (very) long ago I'd heard of the movie but didn't know about Peter Sellers while no one told me it was a satire. So at the two-minute mark of this clip things got real tense, and Major Kong's later...fall?...just knocked me sideways.
The first few seconds of this clip reminds me of laying in the MRI tube at the VA! They offer music of choice so next time, the theme for Dr. Strangelove is the order of the day!
Roman Parker Zoomer, watching a video about the Cold War is a lot different than actually living with the threat every day. Drills of taking shelter, waiting hour by hour to see how the Cuban missile crisis would turn out, people building bomb shelters in their back yards, etc. created a lot of anxiety that people don’t have today regardless of the growing threat from China.
A buddy of mine owns a large family farm in southern Illinois near the Missouri border. He IS Slim Pickins incarnate. Even when he's not trying. (And he does like to put it on sometimes.) Calls me "Coondog." Smartest guy I know. Kong always cracks me up for that reason. Hell, he even LOOKS like Slim Pickins.
The best part was cut out with Major Kong asking, "Goldie, did you say plan R? How many times have I told you boys, there ain't no horsin' around on the plane!?"
This Kubrick film features James Earl Jones who we know as the voice of Darth Vader, while a later Kubrick film, A Clockwork Orange, featured David Prowse who did the physical acting for Vader (and who took great offense that his voice was replaced by Jones’.)
Now I'm suddenly worried that a General might get all caught up in paranoid conspiracy theories about precious bodily fluids or adrenochrome or some shit...
To bad Sellers could not play Major Kong, would have been funny to see him speak with Texan accent, not to take anything away from Slim Pickens who was perfect in this role
@@bullwinklejmoos I was on a B-52 crew, in the early 1970's. Slim Pickins fitted the role of a SAC pilot to a T. Many USAF pilots were from the South and had many of the same expressions and mannerism. In SAC we called ourselves "Crew Dogs", because we were to be wiped and beaten if we ever screwed up. In other words: "The lowest of the low".
There is a lot edited out of this clip. e.g.Major Kong questioned if this was a joke from the crew, and later gave his pep talk ("toe to toe with the Russkies") , and run down on the emergency kit contents for each crew member. The way this clip is edited, a person might think it's an action movie.
3:41 - I gotta believe the Three O'Clock saw this and used the distorted audio as part of the creative process in making their single "Jet Fighter Man". Only Kubrick could synthesize audio and video so masterfully
After all these years, I just noticed something: when the radar operator first sees the inbound missile, he says that it’s 60 miles away. The radar screen has concentric circles, equally spaced, and the radar blip is on the sixth circle when the crewman originally says it’s at 60 miles. This would suggest that each circle represents 10 miles distance from the aircraft. However, once the crewman says “range 10 miles”, the missile blip is on the third circle, suggesting it’s actually 30 miles out. By the time the blip gets to the innermost circle, which should be 10 miles, he says it’s 4 miles out, then is barely gets closer and he says 2 miles. So the radar screen is not consistent with the distances the crewman is calling out.
At 3:14 they adjust the range gauge to maximum scan, this changes (in this case increasing) the distances being represented by the concentric circles on the display.
@@cinedelasestrellas actually I'm not sure that an aircraft (apart from a dedicated AWACS aircraft) would have such a 360° scanning radar & display, but I can't say for sure. When I was serving on HMS Fearless in 1983 the Navigation officer changed the range scales on the display whilst we were navigating the English Channel in a heavy fog, however he neglected to inform the officer of the watch who was actually driving the ship... shortly afterwards we hit a German merchant ship 😂
@@sedanta01 Yeah it seems unlikely that you’d have that full 360 degree capability without a fairly large structure atop and/or beneath the aircraft. From what I had read, the movie producers had little information on the B-52 at the time (most of it was classified - I’ll bet a lot of it still is, given that it is still in use today), and that the only real photo they had of the cockpit was from an aviation magazine. After the film premiered, they got a call from the Air Force, trying to figure out how they got so much information about the B-52 interior. Apparently it looked quite convincing.
The one and only plot glitch that I ever found, and that was after watching this about 10 times, is that the code prefix 'o p e' was communicated to the crews, but never acknowledged. Clearly it came from Ripper, but we never know how.
Can someone explain 3:40 and why the transmission would be caused to crackle and boom like that. I know a "missile" has just "detonated" but what would cause that effect from radio waves? Is it the way the signals being transmitted is being heavily effected by the blast wave, something else or just creative license from the director?
Even though this film is a dark comedy, the bomber crew are portrayed as skilled professionals -- they attend to their stations upon receipt of the alert, execute damage control actions by the book, and do their duties to the best of their abilities. I really appreciate that Kubrick made them funny without making them buffoons.
The buffons were the general staff in the 'war room'.
Every kid growing up in the Cold War years knows this movie is priceless.
We're back in the Cold War right now.
Yep! Can’t imagine what the GenX’ers & Millennials think. 🤔😳 They’re like “Whaaaat?!!” 😱🤣👍
It never ended mate. 😐
Kubrick combines humour with stone cold research into a SAC attack profile. Funny and utterly terrifying at the same time. Man, what a rush😳
I always loved Slim Pickens in every Western movie he was in that I saw. His great role as the B-52 flight commander in Dr. Strangelove made the whole movie for me. One of the best films ever made. A signal event of the Cold War era.
Riding the bomb like a bucking bronco
After all these years this masterpiece is still one of my two favorite movies.
What’s the other one
@@stewiechen5208 the original Fantasia. My "desert island" movie. Ain't been nothing like it before or since.
They tried a revamp and it was good but for me, not as ground breaking.
It is superlative. But needs to be shown widely. The psychosis of power.
@@stewiechen5208 I vote for , "Fail Safe "
My other most favorite movie is Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, staring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Interesting that both were black & white films.
As a young man living through those times, this film both fascinated and scared me at the same time.
One of the best films ever made, seriously. More people need to see it.
Since Plan R was not a thing and could not happen, Fail Safe which came out at about the same time was scarier. That depicted a more plausible scenario.
@@trvman1 It sucks.
If you'd like to see a really scary cold war flick, watch "Threads."
Growing up in Philadelphia at that time we never worried about the day after because we knew we were Ground Zero for multiple targets
Ridley Scott before Production and set construction at Shepperton for ALIEN, showed this movie to his set designers and techs because he wanted the interior sets of the Nostromo just like the cramped confined B-52 interior we see in this movie, which ultimately he pulled off. The missile blast fire you see the B-52 deal with is an exact copy of the fire breakout when the Nostromo lands on the Alien planet, Ridley Scott was very influenced by this Stanley Kubrick classic. :-)
I saw a documentary about the making of movie that mentioned how the US military thought that the filmmakers had obtained secret records of B52 equipment to make such a realistic mockup of the interior of one outfitted for nuclear bombing runs. Turns out that the art director had used photos of an actual B52 from a Life magazine feature on the Air Forces SAC forces from a few years earlier!
I flew B-52's in the early 70's. Don't believe the cockpit was ever classified. The aircraft's "Dash-1" manual certainly was not classified and had a complete layout of the cockpit instruments.
_Well now I've been to one world's fair, a picnic, and a rodeo and this is the best movie I've ever seen!_
I remember watching a seattle supersonics game back in the '90's. I heard Kevin Colabro shout " fly'n chickens in a barnyard "i was cracking up. But nobody got the reference.
a friend of mine told me his dad had worked on some of those planes in the film, the numbers are visible on a big enough screen. if those are H models some of them are still flying. i am not former military but i grew up across Lake Worth, TX from the flight line at Carswell AFB and they are old friends. i used to row my little boat across the lake and hang out under the end of the runway and wave at them when they came in from patrol. they always acknowledged my wave.....something about a plane carrying that many megatons dipping a wing seconds before touching down.....
You’re correct!! The B-52H is slated to stay in service until 2040!!
We all do things on u tube or know someone who did...dontcha know?
Sterling Hayden was priceless as General Jack Ripper. Slim Pickens was perfect too. But my favorite line is when Keenan Wynn's character objects to shooting open the Coke machine for change to call Washington because it's "private property" until Mandrake says he'll take responsibility and then Wynn's character says, "OK, but you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."
Countless dead pan lines in this all-time classic! But for some reason, my personal favorite was, major, the auto di struct must have gotten hit and blue itself up.
OK, speak and type makes me sound like an idiot LOL but then again auto correct is my worst enema
No problem. Got your point about the "auto destruct." I hadn't caught that ever before. Nice work. How's that for your international commie conspiracy?!
@@georgestevens1502 Well, I will not tolerate us having a mineshaft gap. That is totally unacceptable
@@robertschmidt7879 No flouridated water either!
Supposedly (if this is not true it’s still a good story) when Slim Pickens was cast as “Major Kong” he showed up in England where the movie was filmed wearing a cowboy hat, blue jeans, and boots. The production staff thought that he had shown up in character, not realizing he was just a good ol’ southern boy.
Yep true story
"Good ole Southern boy" who was born and died in California
As a crewmeber on AC-130H. Hearing the various stations call outs brings back some shit I thought was gone forever.
Ironic, that we watched this movie way back when, and now it feels all too real.
Damn.
Too all you guys that have moved on.
We did not know then, whatvwe know now.
But we know.
Peace.
I was watching Jeopardy last night and one of the questions was “who is this actor?” It was a photo of Peter Sellers and none of the contestants knew it. Don’t watch these clips. Find the film and watch whole thing. It’s a masterpiece. It’s only about 90 minutes long and we’ll worth it.
If they didn’t know Sellers they sure wouldn’t know who Slim Pickens was!
@@patrickr9606 maybe from Blazing Saddles
THERE'S NO FIGHTING ALLOWED IN THE WAR ROOM GENTLEMEN!
@@YrocFrick 10 points!
@@patrickr9606 Peter Sellers played multiple roles (4 I think). There were lots of good actors in the movie.
I guess I can never get tired of this cuz here I am watching again.
I saw this as a 11 year old on a cruise boat. I was so struck by it that I hummed the military hymne for days so that I would never forget the movie. 30 years later on Dutch TV I watched this movie and suddenly this music!! Bingo!
Those BUFFS are STILL running. 😂
The co-pilot is Shane Rimmer, the pilot of Thunderbird 1. He later was captain of a nuclear submarine, so he really changed services a lot.
Wow! You know you couldn't even see his strings.
The thing is Major Kong isn’t even a bad guy in the movie. He’s a good soldier, is professional, is initially in disbelief when he hears about Attack Plan R but afterwards pulls himself and his crew together and does his mission.
He has some fun when he rides the missile but comparing him to the “leaders” and generals back home he seems to be the only one with functioning braincells
LUKES DEATH STAR TRENCH RUN
Remember, anti-aircraft missiles at the time were small nuclear devices, so they only needed to get within a few miles of their target. See the Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missiles. The Soviets had similar devices.
This was so accurate at the time of release the CIA monitored viewing and ticket sales.
I read that the CIA thought Kubrick and his set designer must have had access to secret B-52 plans and data, which of course they hadn't, so accurate was the set and procedures.
Having worked on B-52's in the Air Force my general impression is that they somehow had gained a general knowledge of the design of the B-52's interior, including the double deck design and the crew's seating positions. The pilot's instrument panel looks approximately correct but that would make sense because it only has typical aircraft instruments on it such as an attitude indicator, airspeed indicator and an altimeter. They also knew it had eight engines so it would have eight throttles and eight sets of engine instruments. Most of the other stuff in back like the CRM-114 and close ups of lights and switches were obviously made up and improvised. I read somewhere that the Air Force had allowed a few pictures of just the forward cockpit of a B-52 to be published in a magazine and that the set designers had studied those. Also, they may have found out additional details about the general layout of the crew compartment from some former B-52 crewman or from workers at Boeing.
@Randy Rogers Great idea. Until of course they decide to retaliate and bomb us back. Maybe a ten megaton warhead will detonate on you.
@@ivorbiggun710 Aye, my airforce buddies who'd been inside a b=52 wee amazed.
I heard that too👍
Dr Strangelove, Fail Safe, On the Beach, The Bedford Incident, my fav nuke war films they don't make anymore. All with a superb cast and top notch acting.back then, drama was at its best without today's CGI.
Saw 3 of the 4 all recently. Haven’t seen the Bedford Incident in a long time!!! Gotta hunt that one down!!! Good call!
Dr. Strangelove was the first feature film appearance of James Earl Jones. Kubrick's next movie was 2001: A Space Odyssey, followed by A Clockwork Orange which featured David Prowse as Julian. Prowse would later star in Star Wars as Darth Vader with Jones as Vader's voice.
I read in one of the comments that Stanley Kubrick was denied access to the B-52 cockpit so he could copy the interior.Due to the Cold War going on he was denied the request, so he had to improvise.Watching this clip I am amazed how all the switches and gauges make it look like it's the real thing.He was a true genius!
Apparently
The FBI paid a visit to Kubrick because he was a little too good with the details.
Ken Adam based his design on a simple picture of the cockpit panel on a book cover, according to the Behind the Scenes feature of the movie. Even though he just guessed, it was so accurate.
Cool Backstory info
I was watching this with my dad in the early 70 something and remember he was a crew chief on a B52C and work on B47 before that and ask him how close to real thing he started laughing and just said dam close from what he remember from working on them
The B-52 "Dash 1" manual showing the cockpit layout was never classified, that I remember. There was nothing on the cockpit's front panel that "gave away" any secrets.
It's pretty well known that they recreated the interior of the plane so well that the US Government thought there was a leak, as at the time it was still highly classified information.
But the part I find the most funny is how accurate they got the pilot. I personally know several military pilots that would absolutely wear a cowboy hat while flying.
WoW James Earl Jones didn't know he was in it
Major Kong did a yeoman's job of guiding his crippled bomber to target....a great pilot and a true American.
YEEH HA....YEEEEEH HA....
He was a sex-obsessed war-mongering psycho, like most of the characters in the movie. That was Kubrick's whole point of the movie, that these clowns thought nuclear war was just another game that they could play, and come out of it with some 'important citations.'
Americans don't have "yeomen"
@@fredjones7705 And many of them don't have any class, either.
@@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry Ouch...wounds my heart with a monotonous languor.
I remember doing the “under the school desk head between your knees” routine in grammar school. And the weekly air raid siren drill.
or out in the hallway against the lockers :) Like that was going to do anything if a nuke was dropped. However, we as kids believed it :)
@@trvman1 Effects of nuclear blast are not infinite and constant. They don't go 100% until the max radius and then sharply drop to 0. There are obviosly distances where you won't evaporate instantly, but still be in danger of being hit by debris or broken parts of the building.
duck and cover!
If you’re at ground zero, you’re toast, vaporized or turned into a shadow.
@@hereef1 You really don't understand that there are other places, besides "ground zero"?
It's very nostalgic to see all those analog gauges and instruments on that plane!
Not a single computer screen in sight.
Computer screens were still 30 years in the future.
Just people living in the moment...
in the wake of the 737 Max debacle perhaps no computers is a good thing
One of the best films about " The Big One "!
Ain't no one got the go code yet,old Riper must be dealing with them dam roskeys
Thanks, good job. Can't beat this old movie
Before this, Pickens was just a character actor in westerns. After this, he always had work. Sellers was supposed to have this part also, but he had a cast which could be hidden in the other three parts, but not the pilot part.
Slim got his start as a rodeo clown on the rodeo circuit. He migrated to Westerns.
At the beginning, PIckens was incensed at Kubrick for telling Pickens that this was a deadly serious movie. But it made Pickens so famous, he would get things like hotel rooms and expensive meals for free, and he ended up loving his role.
@@PointyTailofSatan That's often how it goes with acting. A role you take for the money but which you consider unimportant, or even dislike, ends up defining your career. (Alec Guinness was very unhappy at the end of his life with the fact that he was going to be remembered for some silly space opera, not any of his 'serious' roles.)
I loved this movie so much and still do.
Got to love them b52s they never give up
70 yrs after the depiction of this, those same B52's are still the backbone of US nuclear arsenal!
Good grief! I didn't know that those birds been around for that long. They certainly saved our bacon during the Gulf War...
*Operation Secret Squirrel: the story of the top-secret ultra-long range B-52 Stratofortress mission that opened strikes of Operation Desert Storm* - (The Aviation Geek Club)
_Once “Secret Squirrel” kicked off Desert Storm operations, the B-52 continued playing a critical role throughout the campaign. In fact nearly 70 B-52G crews flew 1,741 missions totaling 15,269 combat hours during which 27,000 tons of munitions were dropped._
theaviationgeekclub.com/operation-secret-squirrel-the-top-secret-ultra-long-range-b-52-stratofortress-mission-that-opened-strikes-of-operation-desert-storm
No they're not. We have 46 B-52s capable of nuclear delivery. We have 400 minuteman ICBMs but our biggest punch are the 20 Ohio class ballistic missile submarines.
57 years
I was going to comment on the same fact! BTW I hear that with upgrades they'll be good for another 30 years!
@@armatacalanca962 If one is to believe this incident occurred prior to 1962, when, I think, this movie came out it would be almost 60 years.
I think one of the genius aspects of this movie is how the crew here are presented. In the end, if the Leper Colony succeeds, it’s the end of the world. But you can’t help but root for them. They are doing the best they can with what they’ve been told. They don’t know what their actions will do. And the use of When Johnny Comes Marching Home in their scenes…
And the use of Vera Lynn's great WWII ballad "We'll Meet Again" under the closing credits and the collage of nuclear explosions...
@@dragonmeddler2152 it gives our worst nuke nightmare a deep thought ending.
ITS LIKE LUKES DEATH STAR TRENCH RUN
In some of his other films Kubrick would insert references to the CRM-114 in Dr Strangelove. In A Clockwork Orange one of the mind control drugs administered to Alex is called Serum 114.
"I do not avoid women Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence". Best line of the movie. Keenan's best line was "Try any perversions in there and I'll blow your head off". George C Scotts best was "Gee I sure we had one of those doomsday machines" Peter Sellers "Can you turn down the music a skosh Dimitry?" Slim Pickens "Nuclear combat Toe to Toe with the Russkies" Richard Bull "I must say that's an amazingly good idea you have doctor" all to the tune of "When Johnny comes marching home"". By far the best movie ever made.
My personal fave is Sellars as POTUS: "Gentlemen, gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is a WAR ROOM!"
The line I laughed loudest at ("you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola Company, notwithstanding) is when George C. Scott, in the White House Com Center, says "Of course we don't want to start a war with the Russians - but, this is a good opportunity for us to catch 'em with their pants down".
@@dragonmeddler2152 "I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussd Mr President but no more than ten to twenty million killed...tops".
My favorite line is when they're arguing in the war room and the President says "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!" Classic
Lmao @ the radar blip exploding in full effect on the radar screen.
I’ve recommended watching this movie to better than a hundred young people. Almost all have never heard of it. I’ve lost count of how many thank me for recommending the film.
Most absolutely love it.
Way before my time. Love this film
Terrific lighting in the interior scenes within the B-52.
One of the all time best black comedies ever made, even better than The Loved One
Underplayed detail: the SAM must have carried a small nuclear warhead to set them on fire from a mile away. There seems to be an EMP effect as well.
Not a big stretch - the US had nuclear armed SAM’s deployed at this time - the Nike Hercules series (active from 1958 to 1974).
agreed its one element of the film that hardly anyone ever talks about
I wish I knew what the yelling was on the radio at the explosion.
Wouldn't the rads have killed the crew instently at the distance of 5280ft. Or 1mile. As thats so close it's considered a direct hit. I admite the movie would be over with unless some serious flight computer was set to fly straight to the target then detonate the nuclear bomb. I think air burst was considered worse that ground burst.
The boomd had a 30 mile burst. So can anyone belive a bomb shelter dug over 35 or 40 miles deep in the bed rock then sealed in lead and concrete? With over 1000 etc survivers in it, and self suficient food and tec. For pepole to have survived they would have to have all the resources to live independently on the moon. And probably at lest 1 million people who were so conditioned for underground endurance they have to mentally be a different species! yet that's the age my parents lived through. The age of zero suriveal potential! Probably the reason Prozac was mass produced, and dustributed widly in the USA.
@@daniellafferety4025 Instant deaths from gamma exposure are mostly a myth (unless it is intense enough to evaporate you). It usually takes about a week to a month for the destruction of DNA and consequent end of protein synthesis to kill an exposed person.
Ground to Air nuclear missiles tend to be low yield (20kt was typical for the Nike Hercules) and are lethal out to about 1.5 kilometres - basically if the plane survived so would you because the aircraft structure would fail due to overpressure before a lethal radiation dose is received.
Still to this day one of the funniest movies out there. George C. Scott could not have been more perfect as General Turgidson.
He could play Donald Trump perfectly also ;) K
@@khrystree9233 YESSSS!!!!
Uma Fábula! maravilhoso, divertido and Very Funny!!
PERFECT casting.
Peter Sellers was originally casted to also play the role of Major Kong.
I heard the DoD wasn't too happy with such a precise looking interior of the B-52 lol.
Truly epic scene
Gawd.......! I loved that movie!☠️🌩️
An old repeated fail is the 360° radar sweep. Done in Top Gun an many other films. There are no 360° sweep radars, that I know of, on B-52s unless they have special modified pods added to the bomb bay area on the exterior of the aircraft.
When I first viewed so very (very) long ago I'd heard of the movie but didn't know about Peter Sellers while no one told me it was a satire. So at the two-minute mark of this clip things got real tense, and Major Kong's later...fall?...just knocked me sideways.
I like how the guy at the radar maintained the same radio voice whether in person or over the speaker 🤣
The wing flex on that buff
The first few seconds of this clip reminds me of laying in the MRI tube at the VA! They offer music of choice so next time, the theme for Dr. Strangelove is the order of the day!
My favourite joke is showing people this movie without telling them it's a comedy.
Well kid, if you'd actually lived it? It's not a comedy- I did, and I'm telling you the military is as screwed up as a soup sandwich
@@Krispysquare It's happening right now- China's building 113 new nuclear ICBM silos. Look it up online.
Roman Parker Zoomer, watching a video about the Cold War is a lot different than actually living with the threat every day. Drills of taking shelter, waiting hour by hour to see how the Cuban missile crisis would turn out, people building bomb shelters in their back yards, etc. created a lot of anxiety that people don’t have today regardless of the growing threat from China.
@@Krispysquare Well Kid, that's the difference between age and experience and what you were taught in school by people with socialist agendas.
A buddy of mine owns a large family farm in southern Illinois near the Missouri border. He IS Slim Pickins incarnate. Even when he's not trying. (And he does like to put it on sometimes.) Calls me "Coondog." Smartest guy I know.
Kong always cracks me up for that reason. Hell, he even LOOKS like Slim Pickins.
The radio operator gets a nuclear go code, but finishing that sandwich is more important. lol
fun fact, the film makers got a visit from the CIA and FBI to find out how they got all the information about the B-52 classified panels and controls.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can’t believe that B52 from 1963 is still flying today in the same role…with another 30 years to go….unbelievable
they are slated to fly many more years
Excellent video
What's so excellent about it? Can you enlighten me?
The best part was cut out with Major Kong asking, "Goldie, did you say plan R? How many times have I told you boys, there ain't no horsin' around on the plane!?"
This Kubrick film features James Earl Jones who we know as the voice of Darth Vader, while a later Kubrick film, A Clockwork Orange, featured David Prowse who did the physical acting for Vader (and who took great offense that his voice was replaced by Jones’.)
The CRM 114 was a hand-held directed energy weapon manufactured by the Breen.
Serum 114 was in _A Clockwork Orange_
gotta love the breen
Now I'm suddenly worried that a General might get all caught up in paranoid conspiracy theories about precious bodily fluids or adrenochrome or some shit...
aw, quit worrying and learn to love the bomb! (smile)
Now you know that it isn't so crazy. Just think about the crazy General Flynn, Trump's conspiracy theory friend and supporter.
To bad Sellers could not play Major Kong, would have been funny to see him speak with Texan accent, not to take anything away from Slim Pickens who was perfect in this role
Too and to are different words with different meanings.
There are actors that play a particular part and one can never see anyone else play that part. Slim Pickins and Major King Kong are one of those.
@@bullwinklejmoos I was on a B-52 crew, in the early 1970's. Slim Pickins fitted the role of a SAC pilot to a T. Many USAF pilots were from the South and had many of the same expressions and mannerism. In SAC we called ourselves "Crew Dogs", because we were to be wiped and beaten if we ever screwed up. In other words: "The lowest of the low".
He hurt his ankle and couldn't get into the seat. So they used Slim PIckens instead.
@@bullwinklejmoos Aye, who else could play a good ol' patriotic boy from the South .
CLASSIC!
All you have to do is DUCK AND COVER when the Atomic bomb explodes near you !
You edited out some of the funniest lines.
An outstanding movie.
Very realistic and no CGI
A great movie...timeless
You’re lucky there’s a part 2. I’d a been pissed. 😆
Good times!
Probably one of Peter Sellers' greatest films.
There is a lot edited out of this clip. e.g.Major Kong questioned if this was a joke from the crew, and later gave his pep talk ("toe to toe with the Russkies") , and run down on the emergency kit contents for each crew member. The way this clip is edited, a person might think it's an action movie.
" you could have a pretty good time in Vegas with this.
The, the, THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE.
With that groovy music on the little transistor radio!
Thank god we got the bomb before Dr. Märkwürdigliebe
3:41 - I gotta believe the Three O'Clock saw this and used the distorted audio as part of the creative process in making their single "Jet Fighter Man". Only Kubrick could synthesize audio and video so masterfully
No fighting in the war room
Kits voice for sure!
Failsafe and Dr strangelove were two of the best movies of that time both gripping failsafe was scary and strangelove dark humor
Slim Pickens, the major, what an actor.
purity of essence
Purity Of Essence
whats the DSO saying when the missile detonates? He’s shouting in panic, so his voice is distorted over the radio.
I sense a disturbance in the force.
"Clobbered Warshington ..."
Underrated gem, if you haven't seen it please watch this and I can also recommend the death of stalin.
After all these years, I just noticed something: when the radar operator first sees the inbound missile, he says that it’s 60 miles away. The radar screen has concentric circles, equally spaced, and the radar blip is on the sixth circle when the crewman originally says it’s at 60 miles. This would suggest that each circle represents 10 miles distance from the aircraft. However, once the crewman says “range 10 miles”, the missile blip is on the third circle, suggesting it’s actually 30 miles out. By the time the blip gets to the innermost circle, which should be 10 miles, he says it’s 4 miles out, then is barely gets closer and he says 2 miles. So the radar screen is not consistent with the distances the crewman is calling out.
At 3:14 they adjust the range gauge to maximum scan, this changes (in this case increasing) the distances being represented by the concentric circles on the display.
@@sedanta01 Ok, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining.
@@cinedelasestrellas actually I'm not sure that an aircraft (apart from a dedicated AWACS aircraft) would have such a 360° scanning radar & display, but I can't say for sure. When I was serving on HMS Fearless in 1983 the Navigation officer changed the range scales on the display whilst we were navigating the English Channel in a heavy fog, however he neglected to inform the officer of the watch who was actually driving the ship... shortly afterwards we hit a German merchant ship 😂
@@sedanta01 Yeah it seems unlikely that you’d have that full 360 degree capability without a fairly large structure atop and/or beneath the aircraft. From what I had read, the movie producers had little information on the B-52 at the time (most of it was classified - I’ll bet a lot of it still is, given that it is still in use today), and that the only real photo they had of the cockpit was from an aviation magazine. After the film premiered, they got a call from the Air Force, trying to figure out how they got so much information about the B-52 interior. Apparently it looked quite convincing.
The one and only plot glitch that I ever found, and that was after watching this about 10 times, is that the code prefix 'o p e' was communicated to the crews, but never acknowledged. Clearly it came from Ripper, but we never know how.
best scene ever. one of.
Can't you just say it's one of the best scenes ever?
@@slappy8941 good idea :D
A great movie
Glenn Beck as the radio operator on the B-52
So much for electronic counter measures, just like Viet Nam. I think the B-52 is just a drone carrying bombs. They should paint the tail orange.
Can someone explain 3:40 and why the transmission would be caused to crackle and boom like that. I know a "missile" has just "detonated" but what would cause that effect from radio waves? Is it the way the signals being transmitted is being heavily effected by the blast wave, something else or just creative license from the director?
That anti aircraft missile warhead was nuclear. So the EMF caused the interference and damage, even though it detonated miles away.
"FGD 135" is my wife's safe word.
But i ain't never got the go-code yet...