Fail-Safe Movie Review 1964

A nail-biting nuclear age nightmare, in which American planes have been erroneously sent to bomb the USSR, with no way to recall them. An all-star cast impels this bitterly serious thriller, the straight-faced flipside of "Dr. Strangelove."

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 111 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Race Against Time, Technology--Rampant, Meltdown

Screenplay

Walter Bernstein

Cast

Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dom DeLuise

Cinematography

Gerald Hirschfeld

Director

Sidney Lumet

Other

Ralph Rosenblum

Producer

Columbia Pictures, Max E. Youngstein