Fail safe - the CRITERION COLLECTION
- Zavvi The Home of Pop CultureThis 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
- Working from a contemporary best seller
- Screenwriter WALTER BERNSTEIN (The Front) and director SIDNEY LUMET (Network) wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday fears of the Cold War era
- Making the most of a modest budget and limited sets to create an atmosphere of clammy claustrophobia and astronomically high stakes
- Starring HENRY FONDA (12 Angry Men) as a coolheaded U
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- President and WALTER MATTHAU (Charade) as a trigger-happy political theorist
- Fail Safe is a long-underappreciated alarm bell of a film
- Sounding an urgent warning about the deadly logic of mutually assured destruction
- Special Edition FeaturesNew 4K digital restoration
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