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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.
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
Nov 1, 2022 · Fail Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet. 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. Half the movie consists of Fonda on the red phone with the Russian PM, with Hagman translating, and Fonda and Hagman conversing, some of it small ...
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- FRRUNKIS
Fail-Safe (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Convicts And File Clerks First scene for nuclear war theorist Groeteschele (Walter Matthau), holding court at a Washington cocktail party, diplomat Foster (Dana Elcar) objecting, with no suggestion of the crisis that comes later in the film, in Sidney Lumet's Fail-Safe, 1964.
- Sidney Lumet, Harry Falk Jr.
- Henry Fonda
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
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.
