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Fail safe [videorecording (DVD)].

Criterion, Jan2020.

Cold War -- Drama.

Nuclear warfare -- Drama.

Presidents -- United States -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 1011.

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Fail-safe [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

"This 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. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Sidney Lumet wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday fears of the Cold War era, making the most of a modest budget and limited sets to create an atmosphere of clammy claustrophobia and astronomically high stakes. Starring Henry Fonda as a coolheaded U.S. president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist, Fail Safe is a long-underappreciated alarm bell of a film, sounding an urgent warning about the deadly logic of mutually assured destruction."--Container.

Disaster films.

Political thriller films.

Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011.

O'Herlihy, Dan, 1919-2005.

Matthau, Walter.

Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982.

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