Fail-Safe
1964 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight crew are trained to cease communications and prepare to fulfill their objective by bombing Moscow. As the planes near their target, the crisis deepens and together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution.
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Dan O'Herlihy · Henry Fonda · Walter Matthau · Fritz Weaver · Larry Hagman · Frank Overton · Edward Binns · Frieda Altman · Sorrell Booke · Russell Hardie · William Hansen · John Connell · Russell Collins · Frank Simpson · Dana Elcar · Louise Larabee · Dom DeLuise · Hildy Parks · Nancy Berg · Janet Ward
Screenplay Walter Bernstein · Peter George · Eugene Burdick · Harvey Wheeler
Cinematography Gerald Hirschfeld
Original title Fail-Safe
7.6
2K votes (FilmAffinity)
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