Dr. Strangelove (1963)
0 - times Slim Pickens (Major TJ ‘King’ Kong) was told by Stanley Kubrick that he was starring in a comedy (the director wanted him to think it was a drama as he thought it would make Slim’s performance funnier).
1 - alternate endings shot by Kubrick (a huge custard pie fight was filmed but later discarded).
3 - writers it took to nail the screenplay (Kubrick collaborated with satirical writer Terry Southern and Peter George, author of source novel Red Alert).
5 - characters that were renamed when Kubrick realised Strangelove would make a better comedy than a thriller. Turgidson, Kissoff, Guano, de Sadesky and Merkin Muffley all had different monikers originally.
25 - cents Group Captain Lionel Mandrake liberates from the Coca-Cola machine so he can call the war room.
63 - year of the 20th century in which the film is often reported as having been released. However due to the assassination of John F Kennedy, it didn’t actually premiere until January 1964.
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