Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Despite the name of the movie. It is actually based on the 1958 novel “Red Alert” by Peter George. Kubrick’s adaptations of novels are widely considered in Hollywood to be distinctive works of art, and in the case of Dr. Strangelove, he put a whole new twist to things.
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Kubrick took a straightforward thriller about nuclear war and turned it into a satire comedy that gave everyone a great laugh that was very much needed at the height of the cold war.