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    Dr. Strangelove

    Sep 01, 2019 2 minutes
    IAN NATHAN

    ONCE HE REVIEWED the footage, Stanley Kubrick knew he had to cancel the custard pie fight. His megawatt farce was due to conclude with the American President, nutball generals, Soviet ambassador, and titular paraplegic former Nazi engaged in apocalyptic flan-flinging. But Kubrick realised that there is

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