Fail-Safe
(1964)The screen zeros in on the most suspenseful adventure drama of our age!
Sidney Lumet-directed Cold War drama in which the U.S. President must race to cancel an accidental nuclear attack order on Russia. Stars Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau.... More
During the Cold War, U.S. bomber jets are fitted with fail-safe boxes that instruct pilots when to attack. When an attack order is inadvertently administered due to a system malfunction, the President of the United States (Fonda) must scramble to fix the mistake before bombs are dropped on Moscow...Hide
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Directed by Sidney Lumet
Starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman, William Hansen
Written by Walter Bernstein (based on the novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler)
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An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller. Full Review
It packs a melodramatic wallop that will rattle a lot of chattering teeth. Full Review
Lumet sensibly avoids pyrotechnics in favour of tightening the psychological screws ... Full Review
It faithfully translates on the screen the power and seething drama of the Eugene Burdick-Harvey Wheeler book. Full Review
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