| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33385 |
| QUOTATION: | Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928), U.S. director, screenwriter, Peter George (1925–1966), U.S. screenwriter, and Terry Southern (1928–1995), U.S. screenwriter. President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, breaking up a fight between an American general and the Soviet ambassador (1964).
Adapted from Peter George’s novel Red Alert, which he wrote under the pseudonym Peter Bryant. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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