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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 ...
- $1.8 million (rentals)
- Sidney Lumet, Charles H. Maguire, Max E. Youngstein
- October 7, 1964
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted? Watch the trailer, see the cast and crew, read user and critic reviews, and learn trivia and goofs of this classic drama directed by Sidney Lumet.
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- Sidney Lumet
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- Drama, Thriller
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 ...
A classic political thriller based on a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. A malfunction in the U.S. nuclear system triggers a crisis that could lead to a global war.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (1964) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes ...
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One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, FAIL-SAFE stars Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver (in his film debut) as ...
