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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: 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.
- (25K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
Eugene Burdick. Novel. Harvey Wheeler. Novel. Walter Bernstein. Screenplay. Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, FAIL-SAFE stars Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver (in his film debut) as ...
Fail Safe is an American motion picture, directed by Sidney Lumet and released in 1964. It stars Henry Fonda as the United States president, Dan O’Herlihy as US Air Force General Black and Walter Matthau as Professor Groetschele.
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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.