Dr Strangelove – or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964, b/w)

TCM, 5.30PM ★★★★

Stanley Kubrick’s comic masterpiece finds a madcap Peter Sellers in three roles as an RAF officer, the US president and the mad scientist drafted in to prevent an apocalypse when an overzealous air force commander initiates a nuclear war. There’s ample slapstick but it shouldn’t detract from what ultimately proves to be a rich, sophisticated political satire.