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1964
Fail Safe is a 1964 American Cold War political thriller film directed and produced by Sidney Lumet, adapted by Walter Bernstein from the 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It stars an ensemble cast, featuring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dana Elcar, Dom DeLuise and Sorrell Booke.
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If good films are to be recognised as such, they must be good, but sometimes it is even more important for their makers to get lucky. Luck was something the people behind *Fail Safe*, the 1964 political drama directed by Sidney Lumet, lacked, and, as a result, a film that was supposed to be a powerful exploration of the most pressing issue of its time and an instant classic instead got relegated to a footnote, now k…More
