Stanley Kubrick's anti-miltarism, first revealed in the bitter Earliest World Strive play-acting Paths Of Glory (1957), is gospel undimmed satiric rule in this transcendently ironic comedy around the possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Coming closer than on any occasion to a twentieth century nightmare, Kubrick elected to view the end of the in the seventh heaven not as tragedy, but as the ultimate absurdity, in the process creating a cover that is far more basic than more sombre efforts, such as Sidney Lumet'sFail Safe of the same year, and Stanley Kramer's On the Shore(1959).
George C Scott and Sterling Hayden frighteningly unite the crazy military mind, while Peter Sellers gives three quick-witted lampoon performances, as liberal US Pr...
