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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.
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.
Nov 1, 2022 · This is a really great film, a serious, non-satirical twin to Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove". Henry Fonda is superb as POTUS, and Larry Hagman is excellent as his translator.
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 ...
When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system malfunction, the President of the United States (Henry Fonda) must scramble to fix the mistake before the bombs are...
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One plane, piloted by Colonel Grady, manages to get through. Despite radio orders from the President to return and the pleadings of his own wife, Grady refuses to alter his course. While the President is talking to the Russian premier on the hot line, Grady releases the bombs over Moscow.
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 and...
