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- Henry FondaThe President
- Walter MatthauProf. Groeteschele
- Dan O'HerlihyBrig. Gen. Warren A. Black
- Edward BinnsColonel Grady
- Sorrell BookeCongressman Raskob
- Larry HagmanBuck
- Fritz WeaverColonel Cascio
- Frank OvertonGen. Bogan (SAC, Omaha)
- Dom DeLuiseTSgt. Collins
- William HansenSecretary Swenson
- Russell HardieGen. Stark
- Russell CollinsKnapp
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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 ...
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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- Drama, Thriller
- Sidney Lumet
- 1964-10-07
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.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
Novel. Walter Bernstein. Screenplay. Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Starring Henry Fonda as a coolheaded U.S. president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist, Fail Safe is a long-underappreciated alarm bell of a film, sounding an urgent warning about the deadly logic of mutually assured destruction.
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