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

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