Fail safe

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The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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Cold War Drama

International relations Drama

Nuclear warfare Drama

Nuclear weapons Drama

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ISBN:

9781681436807

Uniform Title:

Fail-safe (Motion picture : 1964)

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 blu-ray videodisc (112 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (47 x 33 cm folded to 12 x 17 cm)
4 3/4 in
stamping
digital
optical
mono
LPCM 1.0
widescreen
Blu-ray
video file
Blu-ray
region A

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: PG

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1964
Based on the bestselling novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler
Special Features: New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack -- Audio commentary from 2000 featuring director Sidney Lumet -- New interview with film critic J. Hoberman on 1960s nuclear paranoia and Cold War films -- "Fail Safe" Revisited, a short documentary from 2000 including interviews with Lumet, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, and actor Dan O'Herlihy -- Plus: an essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, William Hansen, Russell Hardie, Russell Collins, Sorrell Booke
Blu-ray; Widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; region A ; requires Blu-ray player
In English ; English (SDH) subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

Control Number:

3015366

UPC:

715515240413

Other Authors:

Binns, Edward, 1916-1990
Burdick, Eugene
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982
Hagman, Larry
Matthau, Walter
O'Herlihy, Dan, 1919-2005
Overton, Frank, 1918-1967
Weaver, Fritz, 1926-2016

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