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 ...

Fail Safe: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns. A technical malfunction sends American bombers to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack.

Nov 1, 2022 · 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 ... More... as his translator.

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Feb 23, 2025 · Fail Safe is a Cold War thriller directed by Sidney Lumet, featuring Henry Fonda as the U.S. President. The film explores a critical moment when a technical malfunction sends American bombers toward the Soviet Union, raising the specter of a nuclear catastrophe.

Mar 31, 2018 · Today I comment on one of his most underrated films, which happens to be one of the greatest thrillers of all time. From 1964 and likely to give you nightmares, Lumet tackles nuclear annihilation in Fail-Safe, screenplay by Walter Bern­stein, from the book by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

Based on the novel Fail-Safe by Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler (New York, 1962). A failure in the U.S. defense system threatens to start World War III.

Jan 29, 2020 · But we can already see these ideas starting to fuse in Fail Safe: it’s a procedural thriller set in a world that is both physically and philosophically isolated—but it is also haunted by a real-life churning beyond its immediate borders.

Feb 4, 2025 · Fail Safe is getting a modern-day reimagining. The story is derived from a 1962 novel by Harvey Wheeler and Eugene Burdick, focusing on a fictional nuclear attack during the Cold War. Two years later, iconic director Sidney Lumet adapted it into a …

Fail Safe is an American motion picture, directed by Sidney Lumet and released in 1964. It stars Henry Fonda as the United States president, Dan O’Herlihy as US Air Force General Black and Walter Matthau as Professor Groetschele.