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  1. Jan 28, 2021 · While Dr. Strangelove certainly seemed to impact the zeitgeist more widely than Fail-Safe, this film also stands the test of time as a bleak and unrelenting reminder how close we still ride to the edge of oblivion. These soldiers, leaders, and their families are just people, and we all make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes have the best ...

  2. The cold war gets hot in this nuclear disaster film. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 17, 2015. Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com. Lumet's tense political drama is riveting, but unfortunately ...

  3. JLuis_001. Jan 26, 2022. An exceptional thriller about the paranoia and fears of a possible nuclear war after the Cuban missile crisis. Fail Safe is inspired by a book with the same title, that was sued by Stanley Kubrick for being too similar to the book on which Dr. Strangelove was based. Dr.

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  4. Fail Safe is a tense and suspenseful piece of filmmaking dealing with the frightening implications of accidental nuclear warfare. It faithfully translates on the screen the power and seething drama of the Eugene Burdick-Harvey Wheeler book. Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics.

  5. Aug 24, 2020 · Perhaps the most disturbing difference between 1962 — when Fail-Safe was first published, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh on everyone’s mind — and today is that a book like this could be an instant bestseller, with the film version released two years later in competition with Dr. Strangelove.

  6. Dec 13, 2021 · Uncertainty, inconsistency, and hesitancy abounded, dominating the national pandemic response of the United States and highlighting a paradox of 21st-century life not unlike what’s deconstructed in Lumet’s drama: the more we relinquish our agency, the more important it becomes to have agency. Call it a fail-safe. Call it moral responsibility.

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  8. Jan 29, 2020 · 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.”. Lumet’s early films evince a fascination with working-class subjects and kitchen-sink realism (A View from the Bridge, 1962; The ...

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