Fail Safe [VHS] Overview
Item number 185045, Grading is cover/record: VG/VG+ using Goldmine standards. 1981,rw Please see seller profile for abbreviation descriptions.
Fail Safe [VHS] Specifications
It's Dr. Strangelove, but without the laughs. Fail Safe, made within a year of Strangelove and at the height of cold war atomic anxiety, posits a similar nightmare scenario. A U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered toward Moscow, ready to drop its load. The U.S. president (Henry Fonda) and various military and congressional leaders must then scramble to deal with the disaster. The built-in suspense is well maintained by director Sidney Lumet, working from a script by former blacklisted writer Walter Bernstein. The solemn, serious approach doesn't begin to touch the brilliance of Strangelove's inspired take on the nuclear nightmare, but Fail Safe is absorbing and well acted (a memorable role for Walter Matthau, for instance). The movie enters unexpected territory in its final minutes; conditioned for feel-good endings, viewers are still genuinely shocked by the plot turns in the final reels. The climax comes as a sobering slap in the face, intriguingly staged by Lumet. Now that the cold war has passed on into history, Fail Safe stands as--thank goodness--an interesting period piece. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
I think this Cold War thriller to scare a veritable who starred in Sidney Lumet happened.A black and white film, based on a novel by Burdick and Wheeler.The USAF could not use sequences Film cooperation SAC headquarters or the bombers are, we get shots of aircraft B58 Hustler bomber renamed quoted Vindicator '. This film was because of its similarity to the theme of Dr. Strangelove, the building in a different book.However I think this question is technicallyand treatment of the theme is dramatic warranted.Following different.Serious the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the world was on the verge of a nuclear holocaust.Machine or man was a mistake possibility.Due clear cola leads to claim hardware failure, what in the film USAF / Defense Dept.withdrew their support and the film has had a minimal-budget action scenes are mostly located in the bunker, the Strategic Air Command headquarters and in case of error Computer planes.Asends a squadron of SAC bombers in race to Russia, their nuclear weapons on Moscow using attack code instead of a point drop. AirForce commander Frank Overton tried to establish radio contact with the bombers, but if the drivers have the "Fail-Safe" pass point were instructed to ignore a reversal of the radio through the Russians.US orders.Their were President Henry Fonda was trapped (and interpreters Larry Hagman), race against time, are not able to recallretaliation.He is due to the security system and alarm the Russians the nuclear disaster is imminent avoided to convince send accident.Working in concert with SAC, the Russian bombers and interceptors to shoot Americans. Fighters have tried to shoot them, but short of fuel and crash.Oneaircraft Edward Binns, escapes destruction and to promote its safe use target.Fail piloted a model minimalist documentary by the use of light with high overload claustrophobicsilences.Tension ups, linked strokes sustainable, long strokes and Dolly remained realistic and joins every stage.There is a battle of ideas between Groetescele's (Mathauer), an idea that can win a nuclear war WAS and the concept of limited war a Machiavellian extreme anti-Marxist, General vs. Black (O'Herlihy), the disturbing dream opens the film, which sees nuclear power as inevitable sacrifice despair is.In war, the president of an American city (citing hisold Buddy offers `Blackie 'doto know that his wife and children there), when its pilots Moscow.This Cold War thriller bomb successfully builds tension and suspense with the use of seat SAC big screen for the movement of bombers on a Map.The World final table is presented as a shock.
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