Cast: Peter Gellers, George C. Scott

This movie?s story takes place in the sixties in the present time in which it was made. The story begins when a United States Army General decides to bomb Russia. The attack is ordered without the authority of The United States of America?s Congress and President. Twenty million Russian lives are at stake of being hit with an atomic bomb. Through out the movie it is a race against time to stop the U.S. planes from bombing Russia.

In this movie woman are only portrayed as sex objects. The first time I noticed this type of sexual depiction was when a United States pilot was reading a Playboy magazine while on duty in the aircraft. An extremely

At the end of the movie it is revealed that Dr. Strangelove, a German scientist is a follower of Adolf Hitler. This movie being a dark comedy ends with Dr. Strangelove fighting his arm from strangling himself while randomly throwing it into the air and saying ?Heil Hitler.? This might have been the filmmaker?s way of showing how eccentric Hitler?s followers were.

Most of the men in this movie are portrayed as tough, rugged, military persons. The smoking of the cigar seems to play an important part in showing male dominance. The insane General Jack D. Ripper is shown almost all the time smoking his cigar, and many of the men in the war room are doing so as well.

This movie also poorly depicts Russia. The Russian Ambassador is shown to be an overweight, homely, mean, and cold man. The United States

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