"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
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...Silly asie: Did anyone else notice that in the last scene with Sellers
playing Dr. Stangelove and doing his best to suppress his Nazi salute,
that the guy playing the Russian ambassador is visibly struggling to hold
back his laughter? I'd never noticed it before, but it's there.

I believe the scene is a considered something of a classic by aficionados of
the "****ups left in" genre.

I, subtlety being my strong suit, first caught it on about my tenth or
twelfth viewing. Yeah, I've seen it that many times.....and more. "Dr.
Strangelove" is one of three movies (the others are "To Kill a Mockingbird"
and "In the Heat of the Night") that I, a usually, and increasingly, early
to bed kind of guy, will stay up into the wee hours to watch every time it
comes around.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has long been remiss in not
having an annual award for the best performance by an actor in a single
scene. George C. Scott's description of a B-52 bombing run as the crazed
Gen. Buck Turgidson would have been a shoo in.

And Merkin Muffley is, hands down, THE BEST character name in the history of
the arts!

Wolfgang