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     George Clooney

     Col. Jack Grady
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     Noah Wyle

     Buck
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     Richard Dreyfuss

     President
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     Hank Azaria

     Prof. Groeteschele
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     Brian Dennehy

     Gen. Bogan
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     Harvey Keitel

     Brig. Gen. Warren Black

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fail_Safe_(1964_film)Fail Safe (1964 film) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

   • Box office: $1.8 million (rentals)
   • Produced by: Sidney Lumet, Charles H. Maguire, Max E. Youngstein

   • Release date: October 7, 1964

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4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0058083Fail Safe (1964) - IMDb

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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.

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   • Director: Sidney Lumet

   • Content Rating: Approved
   • Genre: Drama, Thriller

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   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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   • Actors: Henry Fonda

   • Director: Sidney Lumet
   • Produce Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation

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   Is fail safe based on a true story?

   • 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.

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   When was 'fail safe' made?

   • 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.

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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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   What is fail safe based on?

   • Fail Safe revolves around the inability of the United States to recall a squadron of nuclear-armed bombers inadvertently ordered to attack Moscow. The U.S. president (played by Henry Fonda) desperately tries to convince the Soviets that the attack is a mistake.

   Fail Safe | Cold War, Nuclear War, Thriller | Britannica

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7. www.imdb.com › title › tt0058083Fail Safe (1964) - Plot - IMDb

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   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 ...

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   Fail Safe was remade as a live television movie in 2000, produced by George Clooney. Stephen Frears directed a cast including Richard Dreyfuss as the President, Noah Wyle as his translator, Brian Dennehy, Sam Elliott, James Cromwell, Hank Azaria, Norman Lloyd, Don Cheadle, Clooney and Harvey Keitel.

   • Director: Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.

   • Actors: Henry Fonda

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    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.

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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 a group of military men on the verge of World War III.