Fail Safe

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Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film about an accidental U.S. nuclear strike order on the Soviet Union, directed by Sidney Lumet.

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Fail Safe canonical 2
Fail Safe (1964 film) 1
Fail-Safe 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War film
black-and-white film
film
thriller film
basedOn Fail-Safe (novel)
linked to: Fail Safe
basedOnAuthor Eugene Burdick
Harvey Wheeler
castMember Dan O'Herlihy
Dom DeLuise
Frank Overton
Fritz Weaver
Henry Fonda
Hildy Parks
Larry Hagman
Nancy Berg
Russell Hardie
Sorrell Booke
Walter Matthau
William Hansen
cinematographer Gerald Hirschfeld
composer Gerald Fried
countryOfOrigin United States
director Sidney Lumet
distributor Columbia Pictures
editor Ralph Rosenblum
filmingTechnique black-and-white cinematography
genre nuclear war film
political drama
thriller
hasTheme ethical decision-making in war
military technology failure
nuclear deterrence
locationOfAction Soviet Union
United States
mainCharacter Brigadier General Warren A. Black
Professor Groeteschele
The President of the United States
notableFor depiction of accidental U.S. nuclear strike order on the Soviet Union
originalLanguage English
producer Max E. Youngstein
productionCompany Columbia Pictures
releaseDate 1964-10-07
releaseYear 1964
runtimeMinutes 112
screenwriter Walter Bernstein
settingPeriod Cold War
subjectMatter U.S.–Soviet relations
accidental nuclear strike order
nuclear weapons
timePeriodOfWork 1960s American cinema

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Sidney Lumet notableWork Fail Safe
Henry Fonda notableWork Fail Safe
Cold War cinema notableWork Fail Safe (1964 film)
linked to: Fail Safe
Walter Bernstein notableWork Fail-Safe
linked to: Fail Safe
Fail Safe basedOn Fail-Safe (novel)
linked to: Fail Safe