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Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS , starred George Clooney , Richard Dreyfuss , Harvey Keitel , and Noah Wyle , and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its Golden Age in the 1950s ...
- Stephen Frears
- Maysville Pictures, Warner Bros. Television
Apr 9, 2000 · A live TV adaptation of the Cold War thriller about a nuclear accident in Moscow. Starring Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle and others, directed by Stephen Frears and Martin Pasetta.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta
- 2000-04-09
Fail Safe is a thriller about a nuclear accident during the Cold War, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Richard Dreyfuss and George Clooney. You can buy or rent it on various online platforms, such as Apple TV, Amazon Video, and Vudu.
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- 2000
- Himself-Host; President; Buck
- Stephen Frears
Fail Safe (2000) Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow. 508 IMDb 7.4 1 h 24 min 2000. X-Ray 13+. Suspense · Drama · Military and War. Available to rent or buy. Rent. SD $2.99. Buy. SD $9.99.
- 84 min
Fail-Safe | Rotten Tomatoes. 1964, Mystery & thriller, 1h 51m. 93% Tomatometer 29 Reviews. 91% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. What to know. Critics Consensus. Fail-Safe strikes an impressive...
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- Henry Fonda
- Sidney Lumet
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
Jan 19, 2020 · Audio commentary from 2000 featuring director Sidney Lumet New interview with film critic J. Hoberman on 1960s nuclear paranoia and Cold War films “Fail-Safe” Revisited, a short documentary from 2000 including interviews with Sidney Lumet, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, and actor Dan O’Herlihy An essay by critic Bilge Ebiri
A film adaptation of the 1962 novel by Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Burdick, in which a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow due to a transmission blunder. The President and U.S. military leaders must take drastic measures to prevent a catastrophe in this historical drama.