Coool, thanks for the link.

I occasionally quote from the Caddyshack movie, and it surprises me how few people recognize the movie.

How about the scene where Bill Murray says something like, "...I'd like to show her the meaning of the word respect..."

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1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Or when I see a hot girl, I'll say, "if she were a flavor, she'd be babe-a-licous. If she were president, she'd be Babe Lincoln".

Everyone thinks I'm a comedic genius, but it came from Wayne's World.

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2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

I love it when George C Scott is asked if it is possible for one of the B-52 to be able avoid Russian radar and hit its target. He goes on about if the pilot is really sharp and get down low and what a sight it is to see a B-52 with smoke coming out of those engines... then he realize that the B-52 may hit its target and end the world. His expression is worth a million words.

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After reading all the posts in this thread, I've got to go out and rent this DVD.

IMO, an all time classic. Great cast. Great acting, esp. Peter Sellers playing 3 roles !. Great script. Great satire. Characters so, so stereotyped!

Weak president (Sellers), macho General (Scott), Ex-Nazi Security advisor (Sellers) made up for all the world to look like Henry Kissinger! Big hulking Russian ambassador.

Keenan Wynn asking Mandrake (Sellers) if he's some kind of prevert? And the scene with Mandrake at the coke machine asking him to shoot it to get enough change to dial the White House from Germany: " I can't do that. That's private property"

What was the name of that base? "Burpleson" Air Force Base?

General Buck Turgison: "Mr. President, we must not allow a Doomsday Gap!"

I also lliked Dr. Strangelove describing the characteristics of the women to place in the caves with the men for procreation purposes during the years of radiation cool-down.

"I'm fine Dimitri. What's that Dimitri? Your'e fine too? I'm glad your fine too Dimitri."

[QUOTE=dynalow;1331808]I always thought the Secturity Advisor was a cross between Kissinger and Edward Teller.

i will have to get a copy too.

my memory is vague. i remember thinking it was anti war and that was ok as it was during vietnam, right?

i remember slim riding the bomb out and peter sellers arm sieg heiling. that is about all.

tom w

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

This movie always makes the top 100.

There are a load of good lines in it, like...

President ****** Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.

If look at the two bombs in the bomb bay, one has "Dear John" written on it...it's a great gag that gets missed.

" Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is producer/director Stanley Kubrick's brilliant, satirical, provocative black comedy/fantasy regarding doomsday and Cold War politics that features an accidental, inadvertent, pre-emptive nuclear attack. The undated, landmark film - the first commercially-successful political satire about nuclear war, has been inevitably compared to another similar suspense film released at the same time - the much-more-serious and melodramatic Fail-Safe (1964). However, this was a cynically objective, Monty Python-esque, humorous, biting response to the apocalyptic fears of the 1950s.

The witty screenplay, co-authored by the director (with Terry Southern), was based on Peter George's novel Red Alert (the U.S. title). [George's work, under his pseudonym Peter Bryant, was first published in England with the title Two Hours to Doom. Early drafts of the script were titled Edge of Doom and The Delicate Balance of Terror.] The novel's primary concern was the threat of an accidental nuclear war. Dr. Strangelove himself did not appear in the novel, however - he was added by Kubrick and co-screenwriter Southern.

The mid-1960s film's nightmarish, apocalyptic theme was about how technology had gone haywire and had dominated humanity. The film's anti-war fears actually became a plausible scenario, shortly after the assassination of President Kennedy, the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the heated-up intensification of the Cold War and nuclear arms race. [The satirical film's release was delayed from December 12, 1963 to late January, 1964 due to Kennedy's assassination in late November.]

However, Columbia Pictures had to include a disclaimer at the film's beginning:

It is the stated position of the United States Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film. Furthermore, it should be noted that none of the characters portrayed in this film are meant to represent any real persons living or dead.

The funny (and frightening), dark film cleverly cuts back and forth mid-scene (and increases in rapidity as the film draws to an insane close) from three main set locations, each with their own distinctive camera styles:

* a locked office in a sealed-off Air Force command base of a psychotic, impotent bomb-group commander who is zealously convinced that the Russians have devised water fluoridation to weaken American men - filmed with a cinema verite, documentary style
* the cramped, flight deck interior of the B-52 bomber sent to destroy the Soviets with a preemptive strike - led by a Southern-accented, gung-ho major - often filmed using close-up shots
* the Pentagon's huge underground War Room where an inept US President has convened an advisory staff - including a saber-rattling general (and other military brass), a Soviet ambassador, and a crazed German nuclear scientist speaking to each other over considerable distances - usually seen in long, static camera shots

There were a total of four Academy Award nominations (with no wins) for the film: Best Picture, Best Actor (Peter Sellers), Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It lost the first three Oscars to the popular My Fair Lady (1964), and the Screenplay award to Becket (1964).

Dr. Strangelove is most memorable for Peter Sellers' Oscar-nominated, masterful performances in three distinct roles in two of the three set locales (similar to his various identities in Kubrick's Lolita (1962)):

* Dr. Strangelove (an eccentric, wheel-chair bound German scientist, a Presidential advisor - similar to real-life Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, who has an uncontrollable mechanical hand that involuntarily makes Nazi salutes and threatens homicide)
* Mr. ****** Muffley (an egg-headed President of the US with a bland American accent, similar to 50s Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson)
* Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (a stuffy British Exchange Programme liaison officer with a crisp English accent, similar to the Alec Guinness' character Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957))
* NOTE: Sellers was originally cast to appear in a fourth role, as Major T. J. Kong (played by Slim Pickens in the film), but once he was finally able to acquire the right Texan accent, he broke his leg and couldn't play the part

In addition to numerous sexual images and jokes throughout the film (including large phallic cigars, mating airplanes, guns, Ripper's impotent "loss of essence", and the orgasmic atomic bomb that Kong rides between his legs), many of the absurd, omnipresent names of the male, military characters (caricatures) have sexual connotations or allegorical references that suggest the connection between war, sexual obsession and the male sex drive:
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more here: http://www.filmsite.org/drst.html

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Reading your M103 duty cycle:
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831799&postcount=13
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=831807&postcount=14

Young whipper-snapper!

[QUOTE=dynalow;1331808]And "you'll have to answer to the Coca Cola Company!"

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BTW, the song is "When Johnny Comes marching Home", a Civil War era song popular in the North and Dixie, the music was adapted from Scottish folk tunes.

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I dug out my VHS tape yesterday, and watched the movie in my 8 year old's bedroom, the only VHS machine left in the house. Amazing film, Geo C. Scott was absolutely manic...the way he stared at the president while Scott stuffed chewing gum in his mouth in the war room, beautiful role he played.

The progress that has been made in special effects since then is amazing though, the footage of the B52 flying over the Russian steppe is a bit cheesy.

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