Tag: George C. Scott

Peter Sellers stars in Stanley Kubrick's political satire of mutually assured destruction

Last chance: ‘Dr. Strangelove’ – the screwball satire of mutually assured destruction on HBO Max

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Peter Sellers plays three roles in Stanley Kubrick’s surreal farce of ideological hysteria and military arrogance, easily the funniest film ever made about nuclear holocaust.

Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, and Jackie Gleason, directed by Robert Rossen

Paul Newman is ‘The Hustler’ on Hulu

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The Hustler (1961) – Paul Newman is cocky poolroom hustler “Fast” Eddie Felson, a swaggering pool shark punk who works his trade in dingy bars and seedy poolrooms, in Robert Rossen’s atmospheric adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel. Crashing into a pit of self-pity after losing big to king of the poolroom Minnesota Fats (a […]