“Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.” One of my very favorite films, and one that never ceases to both entertain and terrify me in equal measure, Stanley Kubrick’s black comedy masterpiece has lost little of its ability to provoke strong feelings since the end of the Cold War. The story is that Kubrick was working on adapting the novel “Red Alert” by Peter George, but he constantly found the concepts within to be darkly humourous, and he brought in Terry Southern to help bring out this comedic undercurrent. His second stroke of genius was in
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