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Fail Safe

1964 · 112 min

A suffocatingly tense, procedural descent into inevitable catastrophe, played with cold, sweaty-browed seriousness.

Tagline
It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!
Overview
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.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • fate
  • power
  • morality
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • military
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension9
Darkness9
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
thriller, drama
Directed by
Sidney Lumet
Written by
Walter Bernstein
Starring
Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Dan O'Herlihy, William Hansen
Cinematography
Gerald Hirschfeld
Runtime
112 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Russian

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