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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.
Fail Safe and the Cold War (2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes that instruct pilots when and if to attack. When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system...
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- Henry Fonda
- Sidney Lumet
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
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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Discover the cast of Fail Safe, a gripping film about a U.S. bomber's devastating mistake that could lead to nuclear war with Moscow. Learn about the actors who brought this tense Cold War thriller to life.