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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb?
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Correct. Maybe I made this a little too easy? Clue #3? Anyway for those interested:
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
- A minor piece of dialog was dubbed before release because of a real world event.
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Consistent with his Texan persona, as originally filmed Major Kong (played by Slim Pickens) says, after inspecting the survival kit:
“Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Dallas with all that stuff.” JFK was assassinated in Dallas before the film was released, and the line was dubbed to substitute “Las Vegas” for “Dallas.”
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
- Another film inspired by the same story was released in the same year
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The movie Fail Safe, a more serious take on the possibility of accidental nuclear war, was released a few weeks before Dr. Strangelove
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
- A character voices a controversy that persists to this day
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Brig. Gen. Jack Ripper tells Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake that he will only drink distilled water or rain water because he believes that water fluoridation is a communist conspiracy to poison American's “precious bodily fluids.”
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
- The first film appearance for an actor that would become a major star.
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This was actor James Earl Jones' first film role, a minor part as one of the bomber crew.