Fail-Safe (Special Edition) - Region 1 DVD

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Directed by :

Sidney Lumet

Starring :

Dan O'Herlihy

Walter Matthau

Frank Overton

Ed Binns

Fritz Weaver

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Description: It's Dr. Strangelove, but without the laughs. Fail Safe, made within a year of Strangelove and at the height of cold war atomic anxiety, posits a similar nightmare scenario. A U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered toward Moscow, ready to drop its load. The U.S. president (Henry Fonda) and various military and congressional leaders must then scramble to deal with the disaster. The built-in suspense is well maintained by director Sidney Lumet, working from a script by former blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein. The solemn, serious approach doesn't begin to touch the brilliance of Strangelove's inspired take on the nuclear nightmare, ... (more)

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 31 October 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780767854993 UPC: 043396054240

Tags: Nuclear War (2), Nancy Berg (1), Strategic Air Command (1), Nuclear Attack (1), Columbia Pictures (1), Larry Hagman (1), Russell Hardie (1), Edward Binns (1), Dan O'Herlihy (1), Frank Overton (1), Russell Collins (1), Fritz Weaver (1), William Hansen (1), Sorrell Brooke (1), Walter Matthau (1), John Connell (1), Frank Simpson (1), Hildy Parks (1), Janet Ward (1), Dana Elcar (1)

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