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

Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden

Kubrick’s BAFTA winning black comedy is 60 years old this year. Through a series of military and political accidents, two psychotic generals – U.S. Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) and Joint Chief of Staff “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott) – trigger an ingenious, irrevocable scheme to attack Russia’s strategic targets with nuclear bombs. The brains behind the scheme belong to Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers), a wheelchair-bound nuclear scientist who has bizarre ideas about man’s future.

This special screening is presented by Professor of Film at Bangor University, Nathan Abrams, co-author of Kubrick: An Odyssey published by Faber.

The film will be introduced by Nathan Abrams followed by a Q&A.