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Fail Safe and the Cold War (2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.
Failsafe (2021) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sep 16, 2024 · A movie adaptation soon went into production, with Sidney Lumet set as director and bolstered by an impressive cast, including Peter Fonda as the President and Walter Matthau as Professor Groeteschele, a political scientist who coldly and rationally argues that the devastating mistake is also an opportunity to destroy the Soviets and Communism.
Fail-Safe. Directed by: Sidney Lumet. Starring: Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton. Genres: Political Thriller, Political Drama, Chamber Film. Rated the #6 best film of 1964, and #417 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
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Jan 29, 2020 · Buy Now. Fail Safe. Sidney Lumet. “It’s a procedural thriller set in a world that is both physically and philosophically isolated—but it is also haunted by a real-life churning beyond its immediate borders.”
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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 Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s.