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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 ...
A nuclear attack on Moscow by American planes is triggered by a system failure. The President and his advisors try to avert a global catastrophe in this tense drama directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
Nov 1, 2022 · This is a really great film, a serious, non-satirical twin to Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove". Henry Fonda is superb as POTUS, and Larry Hagman is excellent as his translator. Half the movie consists of Fonda on the red phone with the Russian PM, with Hagman translating, and Fonda and Hagman conversing, some of it small talk, but most ...
- 112 min
During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes that instruct pilots when and if to attack. When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system...
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- Henry Fonda
- Sidney Lumet
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
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 a 1964 movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. It depicts a fictional nuclear crisis caused by a computer malfunction and explores the dangers of mutually assured destruction.
Fail Safe was remade as a live television movie in 2000, produced by George Clooney. Stephen Frears directed a cast including Richard Dreyfuss as the President, Noah Wyle as his translator, Brian Dennehy, Sam Elliott, James Cromwell, Hank Azaria, Norman Lloyd, Don Cheadle, Clooney and Harvey Keitel.
