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Slasher. The word conjures up images of brutal murders committed in cold blood. A modern day "Jack the Ripper" roves the stacks of Widener, razor in hand, searching for his next victim...
...Washington, the War Room is buzzing with news of Ripper's strike. Things have reached such a frenzy that the bearish Russian ambassador de Sadesky has been admitted to the top secret chamber, spy camera and all. Peter Sellers appears again, this time as the balding President Muffley, a sort of Mister Rogers with backbone, who is determined to keep Russian Premier Kissoff from executing a retaliatory strike. Surrounded by hard-core war-mongering generals, his touchy-feely Red Line conversation with Kissoff, the missile attack blinking ever closer on the Big Board behind him, seems surreal...
Meanwhile, things are deteriorating rapidly in General Ripper's paranoid world. The president has sent an Army squadron to reconnect Ripper's phone lines to the War Room. The Air Force soldiers use a huge bill-board cheerfully proclaiming, "Peace is our Profession" as a shield to return the Army's fire. "Strangelove" is a minefield of such details...
...artillery shells crack outside, Ripper finally shares exactly why he has begun World War III. Under the stark black and white camera, in a hushed tone of inspiration, he tells Mandrake, "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." This is a man with a mission...
Apparently Ripper precipitated nuclear destruction when he became aware of the Communists' plan to destroy the free world through a program of strict water fluoridation. Hayden is brilliantly earnest, champing on a cigar, hand on Mandrake's knee, arm cozily around his shoulders, explaining how he thwarts the commies by drinking "only pure grain alcohol and rainwater," to maintain his purity of essence. "Women," he confides to the bewildered captain, "sense my power and seek my live essence. I don't avoid women, but I do deny them my essence...