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- Henry FondaThe President
- Walter MatthauProf. Groeteschele
- Dan O'HerlihyBrig. Gen. Warren A. Black
- Edward BinnsColonel Grady
- Sorrell BookeCongressman Raskob
- Fritz WeaverColonel Cascio
- Larry HagmanBuck
- Frank OvertonGen. Bogan (SAC, Omaha)
- Dom DeLuiseTSgt. Collins
- William HansenSecretary Swenson
- Russell HardieGen. Stark
- Russell CollinsKnapp
Fail Safe (1964) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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.
- (24K)
- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
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.
Overview. 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. Sidney Lumet. Harvey Wheeler. Eugene Burdick. Walter Bernstein.
Fail Safe - Full Cast & Crew. When a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling towards Russia, fully prepared to drop their atomic weaponry on Moscow, an Air Force commander...
- Sidney Lumet
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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.
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