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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 strike.
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.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
Nov 1, 2022 · 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 abt the situation at hand. This film also pairs well with "Seven Days in May", which is abt an attempted US military coup to oust the US president...it's especially chilling given the current political atmosphere.
- 112 min
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
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
A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
When the United States Air Force's elaborate fail-safe systems fail, a squadron of nuclear-armed bombers crosses the Bering Strait into the USSR to attack. No one is quite sure why it happened but it's left to the President of the United States to try and find a solution with his Soviet counterpart.
