Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman, Frank Overton,
Plot: 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.
One of these things is not like the others
In 1964, Sidney Lumet’s serious movie about nuclear paranoia, Fail-Safe, had a tough time competing with Stanley Kubrick’s manic black comedy Dr. Strangelove, but it holds its own today as a portrait of a particular moment in social […]