Fail Safe

About Fail Safe

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.

Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe is a 1964 thriller film. Henry Fonda stars as The President, Walter Matthau as Prof. Groeteschele, Fritz Weaver as Col. Cascio, and Larry Hagman as Buck.

It runs 112 minutes and was released in October 1964. Written by Walter Bernstein.

Members will find USA president, cold war, atomic bomb, and bunker in it. It streams on Howdy Amazon Channel in the United States. It scores 7.8 out of 10 from 512 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.

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