Fail-Safe (Criterion Collection)
It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 28, 2020
- Originally Released: 1964
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Walter Matthau & Henry Fonda | |
Performer: | Sorrell Booke, Russell Collins, Edward Binns, Frank Overton, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman, William Hansen, Russell Hardie & Dan O'Herlihy | |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet | |
Edited by | Ralph Rosenblum | |
Screenwriting by | Walter Bernstein | |
Produced by | Max E. Youngstein | |
Director of Photography: | Gerald Hirschfeld |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B+ --
Lumet's tense political drama is riveting, but unfortunately it was released the same year as Kubrick's similarly-themed Dr. Strangelove, which was a satire and more thus more popular
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The cold war gets hot in this nuclear disaster film.
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Three Movie Buffs
Rating: 4/5 --
Lumet, o mais subestimado dos diretores, mantém a tensão sempre constante, extraindo ainda grandes atuações de seu elenco e investindo num desfecho impactante e corajoso.
Cinema em Cena
...[Frears] makes a sterling job of reviving the original film's taut, monochrome claustrophobia. A compelling exercise in human drama...
Sight and Sound
Rating: B+ --
Tense, chilling and earnest Cold War political thriller.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
Still impressive Cold War thriller from a time when WW III seemed inevitable.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 4/5 --
An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller.
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Empire Magazine
Product Description:
Following closely on the heels of Stanley Kubrik's DR. STRANGELOVE (all too closely for Kubrick and company, who quickly filed a lawsuit alleging plagiarism), Sidney Lumet's FAIL-SAFE employs a similarly stylized and heightened dramatic structure in its nerve-crushing moral tale. Taking place over the course of a single day, the film follows government and army officials in Nebraska, New York City, and Washington, D.C., as they go about their day supervising, examining, and speculating on the fragile state of affairs engendered by the tense nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia. When an off-course commercial airplane triggers the Pentagon's complex "fail-safe" maneuver, leaving an arsenal of nuclear-bomb-carrying jet fighters at the ready, a mechanical error puts the entire world in danger of destruction. Riveting performances from a rich cast are pushed even further by Lumet's stark and ominous direction. Walter Matthau gives an uncharacteristic turn as a cold and contemptuous political scientist unswerving in his convictions that the U.S. must stand strong against the communist menace. Henry Fonda plays the American president who must navigate the complex and urgent political trauma and prevent total destruction, even at an unthinkable price.
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- Sales Rank: 74,134
- UPC: 715515240512
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