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   Is 'fail safe' a good movie?

   • Starring Henry Fonda as a coolheaded U.S. president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist, Fail Safe is a long-underappreciated alarm bell of a film, sounding an urgent warning about the deadly logic of mutually assured destruction.

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   Is fail safe based on a true story?

   • Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of U.S. bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop the bomber group before it can deploy a nuclear first strike.

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   Was fail safe a satire?

   • When Fail Safe opened in October 1964, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box-office performance was poor. Its failure rested with the similarity between it and the nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove, which had appeared in theaters first, in January 1964. Still, the film was later lauded as a Cold War thriller.

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   Is 'fail-safe' a good cold war movie?

   • When people talk about a 1964 cold war movie, they're usually referring to Dr. Strangelove. Meanwhile, this intense, nerve-wracking, cleverly written masterpiece has remained largely under-appreciated. One way to create a powerful drama is to make it feel as real as possible to the audience, and Fail-Safe succeeds marvelously at it.

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   Was 'fail safe' bad luck?

   • Well, "Fail Safe" dwelt in the shadows, financially and critically, but it was just bad luck. In 1964, the last thing we needed was another tragedy. Kubrick's movie tickled our funnybones at a time when they badly needed medical attention.

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   When was 'fail safe' nominated for a BAFTA Award?

   • The film was nominated at the 1966 BAFTA Awards for the United Nations Award category. Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war.

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   Directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau, Fail Safe is a brilliant, if melodramatic, visualization of the horrendous decisions faced by military powers. While some have called it a spiritual prequel to Dr. Strangelove, there is no comedic undertone.

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   Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The film follows a crisis caused by a critical error that sends a group of U.S. bombers to destroy Moscow , and the ensuing attempts to stop the bomber group before it can deploy a nuclear first ...

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   Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command headquarters, where a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling towards Russia, fully prepared to drop their atomic weaponry on Moscow.

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   Jan 26, 2020 · Running Time: 112 min. Year: 1964. Sidney Lumet’s nuclear warfare thriller Fail Safe is perhaps most famous for its relationship with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. During the filming of the latter, Kubrick discovered that a similar production was in progress, that of Fail Safe.

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7. aurorasginjoint.com › sidney-lumets-fail-safe-1964Sidney Lumet’s FAIL-SAFE (1964) – Once upon a screen…

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   Mar 31, 2018 · The performances in Fail-Safe are so good, the story so compelling, and Lumet’s eye for drama so on point that the movie’s measly budget is rendered completely unimportant. Another significant Lumet choice is the absence of a score, which heightens the realism and suspense in Fail-Safe.

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   This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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   Oct 6, 2024 · A review of Sidney Lumet's 1964 Cold War thriller Fail Safe, starring Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda & Larry Hagman