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Released in United States September 15, 1964 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 15, 1964.) Re-released in United States on Video October 31, 2000. A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
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 ...
Synopsis 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 order is inadvertently administered due to a system...
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Ralph Rosenblum. This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military’s chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Fail Safe, American thriller film, released in 1964, that centres on an accidental nuclear attack during the Cold War. Director Sidney Lumet shot the black-and-white movie in a minimalist, claustrophobic, documentary style and without a musical score to heighten the tension. Fail Safe revolves.
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+. Drama · Suspense · Bleak · Cerebral.
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.
