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Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, directed by Stephen Frears and based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s. The broadcast was introduced by Walter…
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At the end of 20th Century broadcast television in USA began to lose its dominance and give way to emerging world of cable television. This could be partly explained by too much adherence to formula and unwillingness to rock the boat with experimentation. As a result, television films or series that could be characterised as “events” became quite rare. One of such rare occurrences was airing of *Fail Safe*, 2000 tel…More
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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