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  1. Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George 's novel Red Alert , on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a copyright infringement lawsuit. [5]

  2. A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.

    • (25K)
    • Drama, Thriller
    • Sidney Lumet
    • 1964-10-07
  3. Nov 1, 2022 · Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet. This is a really great film, a serious, non-satirical twin to Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove".

    • 112 min
    • 2.2K
    • FRRUNKIS
  4. April 9, 2000. ( 2000-04-09) Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its ...

  5. Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes ...

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    • Henry Fonda
    • Sidney Lumet
    • Columbia Pictures Corporation
  6. One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, FAIL-SAFE stars Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver (in his film debut) as ...

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  8. Fail Safe is a 1964 movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. It depicts a fictional nuclear crisis caused by a computer malfunction and explores the dangers of mutually assured destruction.

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