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Fail-Safe (1964)

Name: Fail-Safe
Director: Sidney Lumet
Genre: thriller film, political thriller film
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 8

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.

Directed by Sidney Lumet · Shot by Gerald Hirschfeld · Cut by Ralph Rosenblum · Ratio 1.85:1 · 112 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Fail Safe (Lumet, 1964) with Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau — Serious Feather · 33 min

Elsewhere

More by Sidney Lumet

The Death Of Socrates — 1955
12 Angry Men — 1957
Stage Struck — 1958
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates — 1958
The Fugitive Kind — 1959
That Kind of Woman — 1959
The Iceman Cometh — 1960
Long Day's Journey into Night — 1962
A View from the Bridge — 1962
The Pawnbroker — 1964
The Hill — 1965
The Deadly Affair — 1966
The Group — 1966
The Sea Gull — 1968
Bye Bye Braverman — 1968
The Appointment — 1969
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — 1970
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots — 1970
The Anderson Tapes — 1971
Child's Play — 1972
The Offence — 1973
Serpico — 1973
Murder on the Orient Express — 1974
Lovin' Molly — 1974
Dog Day Afternoon — 1975
Network — 1976
Equus — 1977
The Wiz — 1978
Just Tell Me What You Want — 1980
Prince of the City — 1981

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