Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announced today that Stanley Kubrick’s satirical comedy “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” will make its Blu-ray debut June 16, 2009. The 45th Anniversary release will feature a 32-page booklet included in a deluxe Blu-ray book package.
Peter Sellers stars in this dark comedy as British Exchange Officer, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, President Merkin Muffley, and Dr. Strangelove, the wheelchair-bound ex-Nazi nuclear war expert. The story follows paranoid U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper who sends bombers to destroy the U.S.S.R. which will unleash a cataclysmic series of events ultimately leading to total nuclear Armageddon.
Blu-ray special features include:
– The Cold War: Picture-in-Picture and Pop-Up Trivia Track
– Four Documentaries
– Best Sellers Or: Peter Sellers and Dr. Strangelove Remembered
– Interviews with Peter Sellers and George C. Scott
– And Much more
