I have a confession to make. It wasn't the wonderful Andy Devine who played the US pilot riding the bomb in Dr Strangelove but the cowboy actor Slim Pickens instead (see:
Slim Pickens - Wikipedia). This kind of mistake is what happens when you post late at night. Quoting from Wikipedia:
Dr. Strangelove
Pickens played B-52 pilot Major T. J. "King" Kong in 1964's
Dr. Strangelove.
Stanley Kubrick cast Pickens after
Peter Sellers, who played three other roles in the film, sprained his ankle and was unable to perform in the role due to having to work in the cramped cockpit set. Pickens was chosen because his accent and comic sense were perfect for the role of Kong, a cartoonishly patriotic and gung-ho B-52 commander. He was not given the script for the entire film, but only those portions in which he played a part.
He also said, though, that working with Stanley Kubrick proved too difficult due to Kubrick's perfectionist style of directing with multiple takes for nearly every shot, especially with
the climactic H-bomb riding scene, which
was done in just over 100 takes.
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I can't help feeling that it may have been Peter Sellers who influenced Stanley Kramer to end the movie with the wonderful Dame Vera Lynn singing
We'll Meet Again. That certainly would fit with Sellers' sense of humour.
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