In Sidney Lumet’s 1964 masterpiece Fail-Safe, a single technical glitch–a tiny electronic component that fails at the worst possible moment– bypasses human command and sends Cold War-era American ...
Based on the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe is set for the most part at Strategic Air Command headquarters, where a misguided transmission sends a squadron of bombers hurtling ...
Read up on the latest Fail Safe 1964 film News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. A technical malfunction sends a squadron of American bombers to Moscow with nuclear weapons, and the U.S ...