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   Is fail safe a good movie?

   • Fail-Safe strikes an impressive chord with its grim, high-minded exploration of the ultimate Doomsday scenario. Lumet... has a knack for landing a tight, winning premise. Fail Safe, a box office failure in its time that's been considered a classic ever since, is no exception.

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   Is fail safe based on a true story?

   • We will never learn. FAIL-SAFE is a political thriller about the Cold War through a fictional account of a nuclear crisis. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. This is a film which, through a very serious topic and a melodramatic tone, emphasizes the absurdity of a conflict and a political dirt.

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   What makes fail safe a film?

   • “In Lumet’s hands, Fail Safe becomes a film of faces, at times immense, downright expressionistic ones.”

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   What is the true terror behind fail safe?

   • The true terror behind Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe (1964) isn't that things went wrong, it's that they went right. An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller. It packs a melodramatic wallop that will rattle a lot of chattering teeth. The cold war gets hot in this nuclear disaster film.

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   Is fail safe scary?

   • Despite these Illogical drawbacks, Fail Safe is as scary for grown-ups as a child's ghost story is for kids. The true terror behind Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe (1964) isn't that things went wrong, it's that they went right. An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller. It packs a melodramatic wallop that will rattle a lot of chattering teeth.

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   What is fail safe about?

   • Fail Safe imagines a no-win situation backing a sturdy, dependable American president in the proverbial corner, where, in a bit of sentimental and masochistically crowd-pleasing fantasy, he manages to do the right thing. An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller. I was literally on the edge of my seat...

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2. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › failsafeFail-Safe - Rotten Tomatoes

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   Jan 26, 2020 · Running Time: 112 min. Year: 1964. Sidney Lumet’s nuclear warfare thriller Fail Safe is perhaps most famous for its relationship with Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. During the filming of the latter, Kubrick discovered that a similar production was in progress, that of Fail Safe.

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   Jan 29, 2020 · But we can already see these ideas starting to fuse in Fail Safe: 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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   The true terror behind Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe (1964) isn't that things went wrong, it's that they went right. Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Dec 28, 2018

7. aurorasginjoint.com › sidney-lumets-fail-safe-1964Sidney Lumet’s FAIL-SAFE (1964) – Once upon a screen…

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   Mar 31, 2018 · Today I comment on one of his most underrated films, which happens to be one of the greatest thrillers of all time. From 1964 and likely to give you nightmares, Lumet tackles nuclear annihilation in Fail-Safe, screenplay by Walter Bern­stein, from the book by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

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   Mar 6, 2015 · Eclipsed by its contemporary, Dr Strangelove, Fail Safe eschews the former's black humour and opts for a deadly serious mix of cold-war melodrama and rampant psychosis.

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   FAIL-SAFE is a political thriller about the Cold War through a fictional account of a nuclear crisis. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. This is a film which, through a very serious topic and a melodramatic tone, emphasizes the absurdity of a conflict and a political dirt.