In reply to FesteringSore:
I'm definitely old enough to recall the film, having seen it at the local cinema soon after its release, and many times since. 'Black comedy' doesn't really do it full justice; it's a brilliant satire on the craziness of cold war politics, coming as it did a couple of years after the Cuba missile crisis, and a timely reminder of how we could so easily have been incinerated in a nuclear exchange. Undoubtedly Kubrick's best work, with so many terrific lines... my own favourite being where General Turgidson says to the President in the war room "... if we launch an all-out co-ordinated attack now, we've got a damned good chance of catching 'em with their pants down!" Great stuff.
