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Bonanza’s Dan Blocker was offered the role of bomb commander Major ‘King’ Kong, before it went to stuntman Slim Pickens.

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The film marks the feature debut of one James Earl Jones, who played Kong’s crewmate, Lt. Lothar Zogg.

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Kong was inspired by a reallife pilot, Alvin ‘Tex’ Johnston, who flew for Bell Aircraft and Boeing, and was famous for his cowboy boots, Stetson and daredevil attitude.

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In the film’s source novel, Red Alert, the chief bomb was named Lolita. Which, of course, was the name of the movie Kubrick directed immediately prior to Dr. Strangelove