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The theatrical trailer for Sidney Lumet's ''Fail Safe' with the silly graphics removed. Great cold war thriller and a good companion piece with 'Dr. Strangel...
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 ...
In the early-to-mid-1960s, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, an unknown aircraft approaches North America from Europe. U.S. Vindicator bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are scrambled to their fail safe points near the Russian Far East.
When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate.
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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.
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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.
