‘Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’

Nuclear holocaust, imagined as a nightmare comedy. Stanley Kubrick’s terrifyingly hilarious, hip 1964 masterpiece, with a triple-role tour de force by Peter Sellers (pictured): He plays a nervous RAF officer, an ineffectual liberal President and a horror-movie version of Henry Kissinger. Co-written by Peter George and Terry Southern, and also starring George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden (as demented generals Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper), Slim Pickens, James Earl Jones and Keenan Wynn--who, as Col. Bat Guano, utters the immortal line, “I think you’re one of them deviated pre-verts” (Cinemax Sunday at noon).

Other four-star films airing this week:

All About Eve / Family, Sunday, 7 p.m.

All the King’s Men / A&E;, early Monday, 1 a.m.

The Wild Bunch / KCOP, early Tuesday, 3 a.m.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, TNT, Wednesday, 9:05 p.m.

How Green Was My Valley / AMC, Thursday, 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / TNT, Saturday, 11 a.m.