Fail-Safe (1964)

Featuring: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau & Larry Hagman

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It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!

One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever, Fail-Safe stars Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy, Larry Hagman and Fritz Weaver (in this film debut) as a group of military men on the verge of World War III.

When a military computer error deploys a squadron of SAC bombers to destroy Moscow, the American President (Fonda) tries to call them back. But their sophisticated fail-safe system prevents him from aborting the attack, so he must convince the Soviets not to retaliate. In desperation, the President offers to sacrifice an American city if his pilots succeed in their deadly mission over Moscow.

A five-star techno-thriller that builds tension and suspense with every tick of the nuclear clock.
  • "Fail-Safe Revisited " featurette
  • Directors Commentary
ActorsHenry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Edward Burns, Dan O'Herlihy, Fritz Weaver, Frank Overton, Sorrell Booke, Dom DeLuise & Dana Elcar
DirectorSidney Lumet
CertificatePG
Year1964
ScreenWidescreen 1.85:1
LanguagesEnglish - Dolby Digital (1.0) Mono
Additional LanguagesFrench ; German ; Italian ; Spanish
SubtitlesEnglish For The Hearing Impaired ; Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Danish ; English ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Spanish ; Swedish ; Turkish
RegionRegion 2 - Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players.

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 Fail-Safe (1964) is a film with a well-crafted tense script

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Watching this film is much like watching a stage play, onto which an assortment of freebie special effects have been added by people who care not a jot! I would guess in truth that the budget was peanuts judging by the quality of this stuff. The play itself is very well written and performed, full of tension. If you come to this film expecting spectacular action scenes with impressive and expensive special effects, the stock footage of fighter aircraft (shown in the negative print presumably to disguise their true appearance) doing things not being described in the dialogue (firing missiles when they're supposedly going to afterburners, etc) will cause you to scoff and turn off! But look away from those moments and concentrate on the main show and the tension overwhelms.

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