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Fail Safe (1964)
Directed by Sidney Lumet
“It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!”
Thriller, Drama · 1h 52m
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.
Cast
Henry Fonda
The President
Walter Matthau
Prof. Groeteschele
Fritz Weaver
Col. Cascio
Larry Hagman
Buck
Frank Overton
Gen. Bogan
Edward Binns
Col. Jack Grady
Dan O'Herlihy
Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black
William Hansen
Defense Secretary Swenson
Russell Hardie
Gen. Stark
Janet Ward
Helen Grady
Dom DeLuise
TSgt. Collins
Russell Collins
Knapp
Crew
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
- Screenplay
- Walter Bernstein
- Novel
- Harvey Wheeler, Eugene Burdick
- Director of Photography
- Gerald Hirschfeld
- Editor
- Ralph Rosenblum
- Producer
- Charles H. Maguire, Max E. Youngstein
Details
- Release date
- 1964-10-07
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Russian
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Columbia Pictures