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   1965 · Thriller · 1h 51m

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   • 8.0/10 8.0/10 IMDb
   • 93% 93% Rotten Tomatoes

   Critics consensus Fail-Safe strikes an impressive chord with its grim, high-minded exploration of the ultimate Doomsday scenario. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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   Is fail-safe a good movie?

   • This is a film which, through a very serious topic and a melodramatic tone, emphasizes the absurdity of a conflict and a political dirt. Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command headquarters, where a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling towards Russia, fully prepared to drop their atomic weaponry on Moscow.

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   Is fail safe based on a true story?

   • We will never learn. FAIL-SAFE is a political thriller about the Cold War through a fictional account of a nuclear crisis. It is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. This is a film which, through a very serious topic and a melodramatic tone, emphasizes the absurdity of a conflict and a political dirt.

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   What makes fail safe a film?

   • “In Lumet’s hands, Fail Safe becomes a film of faces, at times immense, downright expressionistic ones.”

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   Was fail safe a satire?

   • When Fail Safe opened in October 1964, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box office performance was poor. Its failure rested with the similarity between it and the nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove, which had appeared in theaters first, in January 1964. Still, the film later was applauded as a Cold War thriller.

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   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.

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   TOP CRITIC. Fail Safe imagines a no-win situation backing a sturdy, dependable American president in the proverbial corner, where, in a bit of sentimental and masochistically crowd-pleasing...

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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.

   • 8/10 (24K)
   • Genre: Drama, Thriller

   • Director: Sidney Lumet
   • Release Date: 1964-10-07

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   Jan 29, 2020 · But we can already see these ideas starting to fuse in Fail Safe: it’s a procedural thriller set in a world that is both physically and philosophically isolated—but it is also haunted by a real-life churning beyond its immediate borders.

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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 ...

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   Apr 23, 2011 · Fail-Safe instead moralizes and is played deadly serious. Lumet’s tense drama reveals not how ridiculous but rather how precarious and dangerous the Cold War was—how one tiny mistake could bring down the world.