Don’t miss this brilliant black comedy

Director Stanley Kubrick skewers the nuclear age—in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis—with a dazzling cast.  Peter Sellers got an Oscar nomination for portraying three wildly different roles: inept U.S. President Merkin Muffley, British Air Force captain Lionel Mandrake, and the title character, Dr. Strangelove. But also not to be missed is the deranged U.S. General Jack D. Ripper played by Sterling Hayden, as well as a standout role by George C. Scott as Air Force Chief of Staff Buck Turgidson. Other notable star turns include James Earl Jones, Slim Pickens, and Keenan Wynn. The movie, and director Stanley Kubrick were Oscar-nominated.

“Dr. Strangelove” is listed third on the American Film Institute’s ranking of the top 100 comedies.

“Dr. Strangelove” plays on Thursday, June 12 at 7:00.  All seats are $8.00.  Moviegoers are advised to get advance tickets at the box office or online, as shows may sell out. Arriving early is a good idea, in order to choose your seat and also order delicious food and wine or beer.

Check out The Scene, on the right side of the lobby. The Scene wine/food bar offers tempting food such as panini, snacks and salads–and they can all be brought to your seat in the theater. The Scene opens daily at 4:30 and is a great place to visit–even when you’re not going to a movie.

Vulgar, crude, and occasionally scandalous in its racial humor, this hilarious bad-taste spoof of Westerns, co-written by Richard Pryor, features Cleavon Little as the first black sheriff of a stunned town scheduled for demolition by an encroaching railroad. Little and co-star Gene Wilder have great chemistry, and the delightful supporting cast includes Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, and Madeline Kahn as a chanteuse modelled on Marlene Dietrich. As in Young Frankenstein (1974), Silent Movie (1976), and High Anxiety (1977), director/writer Mel Brooks gives a burlesque spin to a classic Hollywood movie genre; in his own manic, Borscht Belt way, Brooks was a central player in revising classic genres in light of Seventies values and attitudes, an effort most often associated with such directors as Robert Altman and Peter Bogdanovich . Some of this film’s sequences, notably a gaseous bean dinner around a campfire, have become comedy classics.

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“Blazing Saddles” plays on Thursday, May 8 at 7:00.  All seats are $8.00.  Moviegoers are advised to get advance tickets at the box office or online, as shows may sell out. Arriving early is a good idea, in order to choose your seat and also order delicious food and wine or beer.

Have you tried The Scene? The Scene wine/food bar offers tempting food such as panini, snacks and salads–and they can all be brought to your seat in the theater.  The Scene opens daily at 4:30 and is a great place to visit–even when you’re not going to a movie.

Pre-show video. Produced by Michael DeWitt.