I'm watching Dr. Strangelove on TMC, didn't Slim Pickens ride a

[EC]

bomb in it, just like in Independance DAy? I haven't seen this in 40 years probably, so I think I'm remembering that....

[niyad]

1. I believe you are correct.

[BuyingThyme]

2. Yes.

That's the most memorable scene.

[Webster Green]

3. Yep!

Rode the bomb out of the bomb-bay.

[MichaelHarris]

4. That goes for everyone dang one of ya regardless

of your race, creed, or color.

[RoyGBiv]

5. WoooooooooooHoooooooo

It's at the end.

[Cleita]

6. You gave away the end.

He rides the bomb like it was a rodeo bull, when they drop it. Then the screen shows mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud exploding as the fail safe fails all over the world. There's some ironic love music with it too, but I forget the song.

[Zen Democrat]

12. Vera Ellen's famous WWII song "We'll Meet Again"

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.

[tiddlywinks]

48. Vera Lynn n/t

[Bigmack]

14. "We'll meet again...

... who knows where, who knows when. I know we'll meet again, some sunny day."

WWII song. Dunno the artist.

On edit: Yeah... what ZenDemocrat said.

[mark11727]

7. Yeehaw.

[Clara T]

8. "Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"

Slim Pickens, as the B-52 Bomber pilot, riding the bomb to global destruction.





"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!"
The famous ending line to the film

[tridim]

13. Animals could be bred and SLAUGHTERED

I love when he says that. :D

[uppityperson]

9. Peter Sellers was supposed to have that part also, broke leg...

so he couldn't jump around enough and they got Slim Pickens to play that part instead.

[norml]

10. Spoiler

Slim Pickens, as the B-52 Bomber pilot, riding the bomb to global destruction.

[Liberal In Texas]

34. ...and he rode it from a plane launched from NEBRASKA!!

Where * hid on 9/ll for awhile with high ranking officials that worked in the Twin Towers, Limpballs, invited on that day by the Oracle Of Omaha...Warren Buffett, to golf.

I saw the plane, AF1, as it flew in. Wow.

[htuttle]

11. "Well boys, I guess this is it."

"Nuclear combat, toe to toe with the Ruskies."

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. It's the very end of the film, and set up brilliantly.

[Bjornsdotter]

16. "There's no fighting in the war room"

I love this movie, I'm glad you posted that it was on!

Cheers

[goforit]

51. LOL!!!.....that was a great spoof!!

How this film fortold our future!!!

Next to MAD magazine as well!!!

[Bjornsdotter]

52. Did you catch

...line about Coca-Cola? I can't remember exactly how it went, but it was exactly what Coke was doing today witht the industry.

Cheers

[jmowreader]

53. That was when Peter Sellers was trying to call the president

...on a pay phone.

Group Captain Mandrake: "Captain, there may be some change in that coke machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it."

Captain "Bat Guano, if that is your name": 'That's private property!'

"Captain, once the board of inquiry hears that you interfered with a telephone call to the President of the United States, they'll give you such a pranging that you'll be lucky to wear the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant! Shoot! With the gun! That's what the bullets are for!"

'All right. I'm going to get you your money. But do you know what's going to happen to you if you don't get the President on the line? You're going to answer to the Coca-Cola Company."

[Bjornsdotter]

55. Thanks!

There are so many great lines in this movie, you would think it was made yesterday...it just seems to fit the times.

Cheers

[EC]

17. Well, good, I'm glad I remember something right

not losing it yet...

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

18. A good photoshop...

[LiberalPartisan]

19. 'Vee cannot allow there to become a mine-shaft gap!!'

[bperci108]

20. Ahhh....

Some of the best lines of all time were in that movie:

"You men can't fight in here...this is the War Room!"

"...animals could be bred and ...ssslaughtered" ( Sellers' delivery of it makes it funny.)

"Mein Fuhrer...I mean..heh heh heh, Mr. President..."


And did you notice the identity of the young, dashing black air crewman? (The unmistakable voice is a dead giveaway.)


Think I'll get this one out of the vault tomorrow; thanks for the reminder. :yourock:

[Old and In the Way]

24. James Earl Jones?

I can't say that I've ever thought about it, but I think it is....I'm watching it now, so I'll know the answer in a bit.

A great MAD movie. This is only a couple of years after the Cuban Missle Crisis (1964), so it is most certainly a statement of the times.

Sellers is amazing, 3 roles, all totally different characters.

[stlsaxman]

44. I believe that was James Earl Jones' first role.

could be wrong, it's happened befor, y'know... ;)

[htuttle]

21. "Survival Kit contents check."

"In them you will find: one 45 caliber automatic, two boxes of ammunition, four days concentrated emergency rations, one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills, one miniature combination Rooshan phrase book and Bible, one hundred dollars in rubles, one hundred dollars in gold, nine packs of chewing gum, one issue of prophylactics, three lipsticks, three pair of nylon stockings -- shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff...."

(second favorite line)

[SeattleVet]

25. "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that." nt

[Oeditpus Rex]

37. The last line of that was dubbed

Originally, it was "Dallas" instead of "Vegas." But JFK was assassinated during post-production, and they figured the February 1964 release was too soon afterward for the line to be politically correct, so they had Pickens come in and dub it.

[stlsaxman]

45. Correct! And you actually see Pickens mouth the word "Dallas"... n/t

[Strelnikov_]

22. '"Stay On The Bomb Run, Boys. I'm Gonna Get Those Doors Open

if it hair lips everybody on Bear Creek."

"Well I've been to one worlds fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've heard come over a set of earphones".

I seem to recall that Kubrick was going to have Peter Sellers also do the Maj. Kong character, but Sellers objected. I can't see casting anyone other than Slim Pickens in that role.

[nemo137]

56. I think Sellers broke his ankle, or something like that

And couldn't negotiate the ladders. I could be wrong, though. Either way, Slim Pickens was the man to do that role.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

23. Here's a fun fact:

Kubrick told Slim Pickens the movie was a drama and to play it straight. :rofl:

[Old and In the Way]

26. Colonel Bat Guano.....

great names of the characters...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. "If that IS your real name..." "The court of inquiry on this will give you

SUCH a pranging, that you'll be lucky if you were the uniform of dog inspector" or some such...

"If you try any preversions in there, I'll blow your head off!"

[Old and In the Way]

28. "I think you're some kind of deviated prevert"

just great writing....

Sellers making a collect call to the Pentagon, $.20 short.

"OK, I going to get your money, but if you don't get the President on the phone, you're going to have to answer to the Coco-Cola Company"

[awoke_in_2003]

42. Don't forget

Gen. Jack D. Ripper

[bperci108]

47. And don't forget...

Gen. Buck Turgidson

Or President Merkin Muffley

(look up "merkin" at www.dictionary.com )

:rofl:

[Buck Turgidson]

49. You rang!

"Tell you what you do, baby: you just start your countdown, and
old Bucky'll be back before you can say "Blast off!"

[bobbieinok]

29. Geoge C Scott character was absolutely great

[DefenseLawyer]

30. Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation?

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

[Blue_Tires]

31. lol

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids!"

[Blue_Tires]

32. one more--my fav.

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.

General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?

General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.

General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.

General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.

General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence.

[anitar1]

54. One of my favorite movies along with Being There.

Sellars was a genius imo. Both movies are so chilling , because they are not too far off the mark.But hilarious.

[Hardrada]

33. Vat iss the point of a Doomsday Machine

if you don't tell anybody about it? Eh?

[ThoughtCriminal]

35. Notice the shadow of the bomber?

SAC didn't want to cooperate in the making of the movie, so they had to use a model in the foreground. The bomber is a B-52, but when you can see the shadow it appears to be from a WW2 era B-17!

[Oeditpus Rex]

36. That's their camera plane

They chartered a B-17 and flew it to Greenland to get the aerial landscape shots. Apparently they didn't tell anyone they were coming, and they got into some restricted airspace — Thule AFB, maybe — and were escorted down by a couple of fighters.

[ThoughtCriminal]

39. Would have been ironic

if that had been the unidentified aircraft in "Fail Safe"

[Oeditpus Rex]

41. LOL! I can just see the crawler

BOGIE HAS BEEN SIGHTED VISUALLY AND CONTACTED VIA RADIO. IT IS A B-17 FILM AIRCRAFT THAT FAILED TO FILE A FLIGHT PLAN. CREWMAN REPORTS FILM WILL MAKE FUN OF S.A.C. FIGHTERS HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO DESTROY.

[skids]

38. Ever seen "Candy"?

It's sort of like Dr. Strangelove meets Barbarella. (It's also a Terry Southern based movie, a stylistic rewrite of Voltaire.)

One of my all-time favorites.

[incapsulated]

40. "He went... funny.. in the head.. you know..."

"And did a silly thing..."

:D

[Neil Lisst]

43. "Hot Damn! We're goin' toe to toe with the Rooskies!

All over protecting our Precious Bodily Fluids!

Truly a masterpiece.

[Bigmack]

46. I believe it was..

..."Nukler combat..."

I always thought that's where * got his pronunciation.

[uncle ray]

50. you just reminded me of the Raygun story...

i recall hearing some time back, that when Reagen took office, he asked to see the "War Room", only to be informed that in fact, thare was no war room! maybe urban legend? :shrug: maybe it was actually in the dvd's special features, i can't remember.