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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 ...
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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- 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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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 ...
1h 51m1964. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III. Cast & Crew. Read More. Sidney Lumet. Director. Henry Fonda. The President. Dan O'herlihy. General Black. Walter Matthau. Groeteschele. Frank Overton.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
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.
When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate.
