[Yo-Yo]

Slim Pickens was genius in the movie.

Major T. J. "King" Kong : Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

[rlmorel]

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the war room!"

[Neanderthal]

"Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff."

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The original script had Dallas instead of Las Vegas. They changed it because of the recent Kennedy assassination.

[Nextrush]

Sure that isn’t John Bolton or Lindsey Graham or Nikki Haley riding that bomb.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

Slim Pickens was genius in the movie.

Peter Sellers was supposed to play Major Kong along with his other roles. There are varying stories on how he was replaced. Either Sellers was not happy with his attempt at portraying a Texas cowboy and relented, or he was injured during the production and was not able to perform the scene where Kong releases the bomb from the plane.

In any case, Kubrick asked his casting director to find him a real cowboy, and Slim Pickens showed up. Some of the cast members thought Pickens was in some sort of cowboy costume, with boots, cowboy hat, and the whole get up. But it was just the way he was!

[Clay Moore]

I read where it was originally a “good weekend in Dallas” but got changed due to the JFK assassination.