Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) is not an obvious subject for comedy. The idea of a potentially world-ending scenario where superpowers bomb each other into oblivion and take the rest of the planet with them seems more like a nightmare than the inspiration for a jolly time at the pictures.
Sellers times three.
However, in the hands of Stanley Kubrick, this scenario became the basis for an acclaimed cinematic fusion, a “nightmare comedy” alternating betwee…
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