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May 20, 2017 · Fail Safe
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- Media Graveyard
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 ...
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 1964American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted...
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- Trailer Chan
Fail Safe: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns. A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
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
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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.