Fail-Safe
Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy
A transmission blunder sets a convoy of bombers off to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow, and it's too late to get them to turn back. The President and the military brass are forced to confront the apocaly...( read more
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DVD Released: October 31, 2000
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February 9, 2009I'm puzzled by the matador/bull-fighting dream scene in the opening that the audience is reminded of at the end.
Dr. Strangelove has the US president meeting in person with his advisers in the war room, when talking to the Russian president no translator is needed, and the tec... ...( read more ) -
November 9, 2008Somewhat dry and very dated docudrama over the big "what if?" question of the cold war
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February 13, 2008How do more people not know about this movie? It's amazingly good.
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December 15, 2007Gen. Stark: They're good men, we've seen to that. If their orders are to attack, the only way you'll stop them is to shoot them down.
Brigadier General Warren A. Black: We've got no alternative! This minute the Russians are watching their boards, trying to figure out what we're u... ...( read more ) -
July 27, 2007A brilliant drama made at the height of the cold war in which US president Henry Fonda must use all means at his disposal to avert a nuclear war from being accidentally triggered. An extremely sobering dramatization of the consequences of nuclear armament, it draws inevitable com... ...( read more )
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June 15, 2009Overshadowed by the film "Dr. Strangelove," "Failsafe" provides a serious version of a nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and the Soviet Union. The plot in "Failsafe" is remarkably similar to it's satrical cold-war counterpart with the National Command Authority hav... ...( read more )
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