Doctor's Orders

How a dead serious novel became the nightmare satire of Strangelove
by Bilge Ebiri   posted May 26, 2009

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Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
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KEYWORDS

Stanley Kubrick  |  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb  |  adaptation  |  Hollywood  |  Cold War  |  Peter George  |  Mick Broderick  |  Terry Southern  |  comedy

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Bilge Ebiri writes about film for New York magazine and Bookforum. He is also the director of the feature film New Guy (2003).

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