Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Jack Creley: Mr. Staines

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• General "Buck" Turgidson : Hmm... Strangelove? What kind of a name is that? That ain't no Kraut name is it, Stainesey?

  Mr. Staines : He changed it when he became a citizen. Used to be Merkwürdigliebe.

  [the German word for "Strangelove"] 

  General "Buck" Turgidson : Well, a Kraut by any other name, uh Stainesey?

• [the men inside the War Room cheer as the big board shows the OPE code being recalled from the bombers] 

  General Buck Turgidson : [Whistling loudly]  Gentlemen, gentlemen!

  [Everyone falls silent] 

  General Buck Turgidson : Ah, gentlemen, Mr. President, I'm not a sentimentalist at all, by nature, but I think I know what's in every heart in this room. I think we ought to all just bow our heads and give a short prayer of thanks for our deliverance. Uh, Lord, we have heard the wings of the angel of death fluttering over our heads from the valley of fear. You have seen fit to deliver us from the forces of evil...

  Mr. Staines : Excuse me sir, Premier Kissov's calling again and he's hopping mad!