Dr. Strangelove: alternative titles

A page has surfaced in Stanley Kubrick's archives where the director jotted down ideas for a title for Dr. Strangelove, the famous 1964 film loosely based on the novel All Systems Red (1958) by Peter George.

The titles alone suggest a certain difference between the novel and the film. While the novel is very serious, focusing on the nuclear threat and the relative ease with which catastrophe can be triggered, the film approaches the same theme in a semi-serious way, so much so that it could be described as a comedy rather than a disaster film or political fiction.

The list of possible titles is curious and strangely does not include what would later become the actual title: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

It's also difficult to imagine what some titles, such as Dr. Strangelove's Secret Uses of Uranus, referred to.

Anyway, here's a complete list:

Doctor Doomsday

Don’t Knock the Bomb

Dr. Doomsday and his Nuclear Wiseman

Dr. Doomsday Meets Ingrid Strangelove

Dr. Doomsday or: How to Start World War III Without Even Trying

Dr. Strangelove’s Bomb

Dr. Strangelove’s Secret Uses of Uranus

My Bomb, Your Bomb

Save The Bomb

Strangelove: Nuclear Wiseman

The Bomb and Dr. Strangelove or: How to be Afraid 24hrs a Day

The Bomb of Bombs

The Doomsday Machine

The Passion of Dr. Strangelove

Wonderful Bomb

And here is the page

Strangelove

Thanks to Lists of Note

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