Originally Posted by tomgoodman

I vote for "Dr. Strangelove". Heard a couple interesting items about making the movie: 1) Peter Sellers was originally going to play the B-52 pilot, Maj. "King" Kong (in addition to his other three parts), but he injured a leg and couldn't do the climbing around the role required, so they hired Slim Pickens, who was perfect. 2) Kubrick originally envisioned the movie as a serious thriller, but said: "We found ourselves having to throw out a lot of great stuff because it was too funny, so we realized that the film would have to be a "black comedy".