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Fail Safe (1964)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman
Runtime112 min
RatingNR
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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.
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Fail Safe (1964), directed by Sidney Lumet, is a critically acclaimed political thriller that explores the dangers of nuclear warfare. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its tense and thought-provoking narrative. While it did not receive any major awards, Fail Safe has gained a reputation as an underrated classic and is regarded as one of the most realistic and unsettling depictions of nuclear war in cinema.
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Fans of tense, cerebral thrillers will appreciate director Sidney Lumet's 1964 film Fail Safe, which stars Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau in a high-stakes drama about the terrifying prospect of accidental nuclear war.
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Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film starring Henry Fonda, directed by Sidney Lumet, and released by Columbia Pictures. Based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, the film follows a crisis caused by a critical mechanical error that sends a group of U.S. strategic bombers to destroy Moscow, and the ensuing attempts to stop the attack from triggering a Soviet retaliatory nuclear strike. Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, and Fritz Weaver appear in support.
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