WHAT WENT WRONG
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1 hour 21 minutes Posted Jun 16, 2025 at 7:00 am.
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A very real fear of nuclear war drove Stanley Kubrick to create one of the greatest satirical films ever made - but it wasn’t always a comedy. Find out where the idea for 1964’s ‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’ came from, how a rival film almost ruined its chances of success, and which major role Peter Sellers had to drop out of mid-production.  

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