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Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove were both produced in the period after the Cuban Missile Crisis, when people became much more sensitive to the threat of nuclear war. Fail Safe so closely resembled Peter George 's novel Red Alert , on which Dr. Strangelove was based, that Dr. Strangelove screenwriter/director Stanley Kubrick and George filed a ...
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
93% Tomatometer 29 Reviews 91% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings 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 ...
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- Henry Fonda
- Sidney Lumet
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
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Synopsis. Warren Black lives in New York City and suffers a recurring nightmare about attending a bullfight that ends in a piercing shrieking noise. The nightmare fills him with doubts about his job as a Brigadier General in the US Air Force who is assigned to nuclear weapons. Walter Groteschele is a professor with some audacious ideas about ...
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.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
Fail Safe. A malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an order to be sent to a B-58 squadron to bomb Moscow. The Crisis deepens as the planes pass the fail safe point and together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution. 1,703 IMDb 8.0 1 h 52 min 1964. X-Ray 13+.
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.
