(One interesting side note is that there is a Group Captain Lionel Mandrake in the film (played by Pete Sellers), assistant to Brigadier General Jack D. He's one of the strongest characters in the movie, perhaps the only important character who isn't deeply flawed in some way. ![]() He also stays on the plane with Kong when the rest of the crew bails and parachutes.Īgain, Lothar, despite the fact that he is referred to as a " colored man" throughout the script, represents a step forward as a strong black character in a thoroughly white movie made during a more racist era than today. Lothar attempts to talk Kong down when the pilot decides to continue on the mission after receiving an order to turn back, saying that there is no way the enemy would know the correct code to countermand orders he's argued down because the order did not come in over the secure equipment, which was damaged beyond repair by a missile attack. In fact, the best damned bombardier in 843rd Wing." ![]() He reads ' Nitelife' magazine." Kong calls him "a damned good bombardier. A lieutenant under Major "King" Kong ( Slim Pickens), Zogg is described in the script when he first appears as "a short, bull-necked man in his early thirties, smoking and dunking a cake. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. He was James Earl Jones' character in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. The second Lothar Zogg emerged right around the time of the modernization of the original. Eventually (about thirty years later) he learned better English and found some new clothes, but even in his original role, he was a milestone in the racial integration of comics, fighting alongside Mandrake and commanding respect from other characters. For a long time, his character spoke poor English and was basically Mandrake's manservant. He was togged in a leopard skin and a fez. Lothar was enormously strong, sometimes referred to as the world's strongest man. ![]() He forsook his birthright to join Mandrake and fight crime. Mandrake was travelling through Africa when he met Lothar, who was at that time a prince, heir to an alliance of different tribes. Mandrake came from a comic strip created in 1934 by Lee Falk. Lothar (without the Zogg) was originally Mandrake the Magician's assistant. I love the way it sounds, partly because it's a deliciously evil space emperor-sounding name, and partly because it has such a nice rhythm. Lothar Zogg is a name that has been reused several times in different contexts over the past eighty years.
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