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. Can all-out war be averted?
Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War drama set in the aftermath of a nuclear crisis. It stars Henry Fonda as President of the United States, Walter Matthau as the Soviet Premier, and Dan O’Herlihy as the American military advisor. The movie follows the story of a nuclear strike on Moscow that...
Fail Safe: Directed by Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta. With Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle, Brian Dennehy. Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Fail Safe Let’s not argue about this: the three greatest films about the Bomb are John Frankenheimer’sSeven Days in May, Stanley Kubrick’sDr. Strangeloveand Sidney Lumet’sFail Safe. All three were released in 1964, when movie-goers were still trying to forget the Cuban missile crisis. ...
ALAN JAMES FRUTKIN
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
and then a 1962 novel called Fail-Safe, which Lumet adapted, but which turned out to have plagiarized Red Alert. As part of the out of court settlement of the copyright case, Kubrick got to release his movie first, which initially doomed Lumet's effort. It's still a good film though....
Fail Safe: Directed by Stephen Frears, Martin Pasetta. With Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle, Brian Dennehy. Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
In 1964 two major films from two major film makers directly confronted the issues terrors and apprehensions The American people felt about nuclear Armageddon. The two films wereDoctor Strangelove or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the BombandFail Safe. The two films took radi...
It’s pure coincidence that I have read this so soon after Yael van der Wouden’s novelThe Safekeep. That novel hinges on the loss of property and livelihood by Jews in the Netherlands under the Nazis – so that those who did return from camps found their houses occupied and their person...