It’s another war film, a Cold War comedy about a possibly mad and definitely sex obsessed USA Brigadier General who manages to launch an attack on the USSR.
There’s a typical narration, a Kubrick favourite bathroom scene or two and some fine performances by George C Scott and Slim Pickens.
Peter Sellers is here again, doing the silly voices and strange characters, but they are in keeping with the mood of the film. The original ending, the pie fight, was cut before the film was released.
It’s a film that bears repeat watching. Parts are laugh out loud funny, at least the first time you see them.
A recent stage presentation highlighted just how good Sellers was here. It may seem a bit dated, but, the state of the world being as it is right now, perhaps not.
A classic.