[Rummyfan]

Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly shortened to Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Loosely based upon the Cold War thriller novel Red Alert (also known as Two Hours to Doom) by Peter George, the source material was refashioned as a black comedy by screenwriter Terry Southern. Dr. Strangelove satirizes the fragile nature of the Cold War conflict and the doctrine of mutual assured destruction. The film opens at the fictional Burpelson Air Force Base, where the insane General Jack D. Ripper has just ordered a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union, and proceeds to follow the President of the United States, his advisors, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer as they try to recall Ripper's bombers in order to prevent a nuclear apocalypse.

[Phsstpok]

“Fill your hands you son of a b*tch” is not from Dr. Strangelove. It’s John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. He said it to Ned Pepper (Robert Duvall) before he single handed went up against Pepper and his three accomplices. The exchange went like this.

[Rooster confronts the four outlaws across the field]

Ned Pepper: What’s your intention? Do you think one on four is a dogfall?

Rooster Cogburn: I mean to kill you in one minute, Ned. Or see you hanged in Fort Smith at Judge Parker’s convenience. Which’ll it be?

Ned Pepper: I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man.
Rooster

Cogburn: Fill your hands, you son of a bitch.

[Cuttnhorse]

I happened to catch “Strangelove” on the tube about a month ago...hadn’t seen it in 20-years. What an absolute classic! I’d forgotten how funny it is and the depth of the cast.