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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.
A nuclear attack on Moscow by American planes is triggered by a system failure. The President and his advisors try to avert a global catastrophe in this tense drama directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda.
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- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
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 ...
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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- Henry Fonda
- Sidney Lumet
- Columbia Pictures Corporation
A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers ...more. One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, FAIL-SAFE stars Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman...
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Fail Safe is a 1964 movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau. It depicts a fictional nuclear crisis caused by a computer malfunction and explores the dangers of mutually assured destruction.
