Fail safe

Fail safe

DVD - 2020

The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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Subjects
International relations > Drama.
Nuclear weapons > Drama.
Nuclear warfare > Drama.
Cold War > Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Feature films
Fiction films
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection [2020]
Language
English
Corporate Author
Columbia Pictures
Corporate Author
Columbia Pictures (production company)
Other Authors
Sidney Lumet, 1924-2011 (film director), Walter Bernstein (screenwriter), Max E. Youngstein (film producer), Dan O'Herlihy, 1919-2005 (actor), Walter Matthau (-), Frank Overton, 1918-1967, Edward Binns, 1916-1990, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, 1926-2016, Henry Fonda, 1905-1982, Eugene Burdick
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition
Item Description
From the novel by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler.
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Special features: audio commentary from 2000 featuring director Sidney Lumet; new interview with film critic J. Hoberman on 1960s nuclear paranoia and Cold War films; "Fail-safe revisited"; plus an essay by critic Bilge Ebiri.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1; wide screen (1.85:1); mono.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
ISBN
9781681436814
Contents unavailable.

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