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Fail Safe is a 1964 Cold War thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
The title refers to the "fail-safe point" used by the Strategic Air Command (SAC) to prevent any SAC bomber from accidentally crossing into Soviet airspace and precipitating a nuclear war. In general, a fail safe ensures that, as far as possible, the machine or process will not make things worse in the event of something going wrong. The title ...
Fail Safe: 1964: 1996: Columbia Pictures (CST Entertainment Imaging) [232] The Fallen Idol: 1948: 2003: Legend Films [233] Family Honeymoon: 1949: 1988: Republic Pictures [234] A Farewell to Arms: 1932: 1994: Paramount Home Entertainment [235] The Fastest Gun Alive: 1956: 1987: Turner Entertainment [236] Father of the Bride: 1950: 1987: Turner ...
Fail-Safe (1964) – a film based on the novel of the same name about an American bomber crew and nuclear tensions; Fail-Safe (CBS, 2000) – a remake of the 1964 film, broadcast live and in black-and-white; Fat Man and Little Boy a.k.a. Shadow Makers (1989) – film that reenacts the Manhattan Project
Although Fail Safe was to be a realistic thriller, Kubrick feared that its plot resemblance would damage his film's box office potential, especially if Fail Safe were released first. Indeed, the novel Fail-Safe (on which the film is based) is so similar to Red Alert that Kubrick and Peter George sued on charges of copyright infringement. [2]
A fail-safe describes a device which, if or when it fails, will cause a minimum of harm. Fail-safe may also refer to: Fail-Safe, a 1962 novel about an accidental sortie of American nuclear bombers against the USSR Fail Safe, a 1964 film, based on the novel, directed by Sidney Lumet
Fail-Safe: 1964 Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (novel); Walter Bernstein (screenplay) Dr. Strangelove [1] 1964 Peter George (novel); Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, and Terry Southern (screenplay) The War Game: 1965 Late August at the Hotel Ozone: 1966 Written by Pavel Juráček: In the Year 2889: 1967 Planet of the Apes [2] 1968
Daniel Peter O'Herlihy [1] (1 May 1919 – 17 February 2005) was an Irish [2] actor of film, television and radio. [3] O'Herlihy's best-known roles included his Oscar-nominated portrayal of the lead character in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954), [4] Brigadier General Warren A. Black in Fail Safe (1964), Marshal Ney in Waterloo (1970), Conal Cochran in Halloween III: Season of the Witch ...