Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

"Dr Strangelove is not really farce for farce's sake, but farce for the expression of the private world of Mr Kubrick. And if you have been under any illusion about Kubrick's competence as a director, look at the absurd performance he allowed George C. Scott to give as a US general, whose mind, what there is of it, is on his secretary-in-bed." - Henry Hart, Films in Review February 1964 p.114

"This is the anti-war film for the Sixties. It is also preposterously, sharply funny... Everything has been finely calculated, and the miscalculations are so few as hardly to be worth mentioning. Dr Strangelove is as hard as a diamond, and cuts as deep: a bold film, and a relentlessy tough one." - P.H., Monthly Film Bulletin February 1964 pp.19, 20

"I consider Dr Strangelove to be a tragic-comic masterpiece - the first truly moral film of our time: courageous, outrageous, borrowing nothing, admitting of no compromise, very naked and very unashamed: a shattering, womb-trembler of a film... I have no doubt that when Dr Strangelove is exhibited in the United States, the John Birch Society, Mr Barry Goldwater and other far flung outposts of liberal thought will attempt to burn the cinemas. This would be an encouraging sign that Kubrick's message has really gone home. Likewise I hope that the riot squads are out in Red Square if somehow they manage to smuggle a print into Russia. And if I was handling the distribution of this film I would have put up a screen in Trafalgar Square and shown it free on Christmas Eve, and then gone home and got down on my knees." - Bryan Forbes, Films and Filming February 1964 p.26