Fail Safe (1964)
It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!
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.
- Date of release
- 1964-10-07
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (505)
- Runtime
- 1h 52m
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, War
- Director
- Sidney Lumet
Casting
- 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
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