Watch 'Dr. Strangelove' on Hulu

In a discussion about Tyler Perry's remaking of Rear Window, I mentioned that Hitchcock's 1950s classic is my favorite film, but that I don't have an all-time top ten or anything. I do know some films that would always be in the running, though, and one of them is definitely Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Quite possibly the greatest political satire off all time, Stanley Kubrick's Cold War dark comedy was released a little over a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and only two months after the Kennedy assassination, so clearly, global tensions were running high. The film went on to be nominated for four Academy Awards, losing three of the four to the clearly inferior My Fair Lady. Bad year for the Oscars: In addition to Peter Sellers creating three characters better than Rex Harrison's award-winning Henry Higgins, Beckett, Zorba the Greek, and Mary Poppins were all runners-up for Best Picture. Be that as it may, Strangelove is the most resonant and important film from 1964, and now you can watch it on Hulu. So do that. And if you've already seen the film (hopefully countless times), you might dig the video below, which comes to us by way of Neatorama and features the original on-set interviews with Sellers and George C. Scott. The way it worked back then was the interviews would be taped for local TV affiliates with scripted questions, and were set up as split screens. So, Scott and Sellers are answering pre-arranged questions, and then the TV stations would have their anchors fill the other half of the screen later, giving the appearance of a live interview.

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[NIronwolf]

That was great! I especially liked the subtle differences he was able to make in accents just moving around england.