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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964)
Released
1964 · FILM

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

An exchange RAF captain stationed at a U.S. bomber base races against time to stop a rogue general’s illegal nuclear strike and avert global catastrophe.

“The hot-line suspense comedy.”

Directed by
Stanley Kubrick
Written by
Terry Southern, Peter George
Rated
MPA · PG
Color
Black & White
Runtime
95 min
ComedyWar
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Following General Jack D. Ripper’s decision to launch a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union, a war room containing politicians, military officials and a Russian diplomat works urgently to prevent the attack.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 31

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Anthony HarveyShot by Gilbert TaylorScored by Laurie JohnsonDesigned by Ken Adam

Box Office

1964 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 5.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$9.5M

Budget$1.8M
Worldwide gross$9.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Re-release box office

19941 theaters
$34K($76K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Dr. Seltsam oder: Wie ich lernte, die Bombe zu liebende
  • Dr. Seltsam, oder wir ich lernte, die Bombe zu liebende
  • Dr. Strangeloveen
  • Docteur Folamourfr
  • Docteur Folamour, ou: Comment j'ai appris à ne plus m'en faire et à aimer la bombefr
  • Il dottor Stranamore - Ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bombait
  • Il dottor Stranamore, ovvero: come imparai a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bombait

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