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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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Apr 9, 2000 · Fail Safe: Directed by Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta. With Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle, Brian Dennehy. Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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- Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta
- 2000-04-09
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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. For some, like political scientist Professor ...
It is 1964 and the Cold War is raging. If the US military's Strategic Command spots any unidentified object in the skies, American nuclear bombers are ordered to a series of 'Fail-Safe' points. Unless they receive the stand-down command, the aircraft will head for target cities in the Soviet Union.
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.
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An emergency arises and bombers from Strategic Air Command head for the fail-safe point, but they are called back when the situation is clarified. Due to a fault in the electronic system, however, one wing of bombers passes the fail-safe point and heads for Moscow.
