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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
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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- Sidney Lumet
- Approved
- Drama, Thriller
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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- Henry Fonda
- Sidney Lumet
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
A classic film about a nuclear war threat and a president's decision to launch a nuclear strike. Starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau and Frank Overton, this film is based on a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
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 ...
Gerald Hirschfeld. Film editing by. 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. Working from a contemporary best seller ...
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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.
