Fail safe / Columbia ; screenplay, Walter Bernstein ; produced by Max E. Youngstein ; directed by Sidney Lumet.

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Fail-safe (Motion picture : 1964)
Corporate Authors: Columbia Pictures Corporation (Production company)
Criterion Collection (Firm) (Publisher)
Other Authors: Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011 (Film director)
Bernstein, Walter (Screenwriter)
Youngstein, Max E. (Film producer)
O'Herlihy, Dan, 1919-2005 (Actor)
Matthau, Walter (Actor)
Overton, Frank, 1918-1967 (Actor)
Binns, Edward, 1916-1990 (Actor)
Hagman, Larry (Actor)
Weaver, Fritz, 1926-2016 (Actor)
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982 (Actor)
Burdick, Eugene
Language:English
Language and/or Writing System:
In English; optional English subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Edition:DVD special edition.
Series:Criterion collection ; 1011.
Subjects:
Nuclear warfare > Drama.
Cold War > Drama.
International relations > Drama.
Nuclear weapons > Drama.
International relations.
Nuclear warfare.
Nuclear weapons.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
War films.
Fiction films.
Genre:
Drama.
Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
War films.
Fiction films.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out insert.
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
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.
Note:Title and credits from screen.
From the novel by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Accompanied by a fold-out insert featuring an essay, "Very little left of the world", by critic Bilge Ebiri.
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".
Call Number:PS3503.U5972 F32 2020 VideoDVD
Audience:
Rating: Not rated.
ISBN:9781681436814
1681436817
Credits:Director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld ; editor, Ralph Rosenblum.
System Details:DVD, NTSC, region 1; 16:9 wide screen presentation (1.85:1); Dolby digital mono.
Cast:
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda.