Albany Student Press 1964-04-10

ASP Arts War Room Tops The scenes at the base are good, but those in the War Room surpass them. Hilarious are the clashes between the inert President (Sellers) and the childishly irresponsible Gen. "Buck" Turgidson (George C. Scott). By now the plans, put into operation through a failure of "the human element" (Ripper), have become so entangled in the safeguards built into our nuclear deterrents that the planes cannot be recalled. Russia, too, is hopelessly entangled in the barbed-wire of safety with its Doomsday Machine set to explode automatically if the country is bombed. Also at the conference is Dr. Strangelove (Sellers), a "converted" German scic.itist who calls the President "Mein Feuhrer" and is almost strangled by his own mechanical hand.