accident that offers opportunity, although he admits: "I'm not
saying we won't get our hair messed. But I do say no more
than ten to twenty million killed, tops--depending on the breaks."

Broderick Mick. Nuclear Movies: A Filmography. Northcote,
Australia: Post-Modern, 1988.

Hackett John. The Third World War, August 1985. New York.
Macmillian, 1979.

Above and Beyond.^*** 122m, b/w. Dir. Melvin Frank, Norman
Panama. With Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Jim Backus,
James Whitmore. MGM, 1953.

The Bedford Incident.^*** 102m, b/w. Dir. James B. Harris. With
Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin
Balsom, Wally Cox. Columbia, 1965.

The Beginning or the End.^** 110m, b/w. Dir. Norman Taurog.
With Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Hume
Cronyn, Audrey Totter, Godfrey Tearle. MGM, 1947.

Bombers B-52.^** 106m, b/w. Dir. Gordon Douglas. With Natalie
Wood, Karl Malden, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Columbia, 1957.

The Day After.^*** 126m, color. Dir. Nicholas Meyer. With Jason
Robards, Jr., JoBeth Williams, John Lithgow, Steve
Guttenberg. Embassy, 1983.

Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love
the Bomb.^**** 102m, b/w. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. With
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Peter Bull, Sterling Hayden,
Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones, Tracy
Reed. Columbia, 1964.
One-of-a-kind satirical masterpiece pokes fun at the
possibility of world conflagration. Brilliant acting and a
marvelous script (written by Kubrick, Terry Southern and
Peter George). Notable scene: the American President
(Sellers) tries to explain to the Soviet Premier over the
phone why the A-Bomb is being accidentally dropped on
his country. Footnote: Kubrick uses Vera Lynn's WWII
recording of "Till We Meet Again" to remarkable effect.

Fail-Safe.^**** 111m, b/w. Dir. Sidney Lumet. With Henry Fonda,
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Frank
Overton, Fritz Weaver. Columbia, 1964.
A computer error sends attack orders to a flight of B-
52s. Careful attention to detail with close-up camera work.

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