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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 ...
Fail Safe, American thriller film, released in 1964, that centres on an accidental nuclear attack during the Cold War. Director Sidney Lumet shot the black-and-white movie in a minimalist, claustrophobic, documentary style and without a musical score to heighten the tension.
- Lee Pfeiffer
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. Can all-out war be averted?
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- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
Fail Safe explores a common theme in Cold War fiction: the accidental deployment of nuclear weapons by one superpower against another. In this instance, a nuclear attack is launched by the US Air Force in 1967 after an unidentified object trips warning systems.
Fail Safe. This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
- The President
Fail-Safe is a 1964 American Cold War thriller movie directed by Sidney Lumet and was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It stars Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton, Fritz Weaver, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, Dom DeLuise and was distributed by Columbia Pictures.
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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.
