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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.
A nuclear attack on Moscow by American planes is triggered by a system failure. The President and his advisors try to avert a global catastrophe in this tense drama directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda.
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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".
- 112 min
- 2053
- FRRUNKIS
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.
One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, FAIL-SAFE stars Henry Fonda, Walter Mathau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver (in his film debut) as ...
During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are equipped with fail-safe boxes that instruct pilots when and if to attack. When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system...
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