Since we are now viewing Dr. Strangelove, here's some trivia about the film (thanks to our friends at www.imdb.com):
- Peter Sellers was paid $1,000,000 for his work on the film (five-ninths of the film's budget). Kubrick famously quipped "I got three for the price of six".
- Peter Sellers improvised much of his dialog during filming!
- The original ending was supposed to be a pie fight in the War Room!
- Dr. Strangelove apparently suffers from agonistic apraxia (also known as "alien hand syndrome".
- One version of the script featured all of the action being observed by aliens from outer space!
- Number 3 in the American Film Institute's list of 100 greatest comedies
- President Muffley (Peter Sellers) was patterned after Adlai Stevenson.
- General Ripper's paranoia about water fluoridation is based on a conspiracy theory by the John Birch Society, which was founded in 1958 and was prominent in conservative politics for a short time in the early 1960s!
- Gen. Buck Turgidson (George C. Scott) was patterned after Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Curtis LeMay, who was renowned for his extreme anti-Communist views and who once stated that he would not be afraid to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union if he was elected President!
