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Fail-Safe (1964) was a Adventure - Drama Film directed by Sidney Lumet and produced by Max E. Youngstein and Charles H. Maguire.

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Fail-Safe (1964)

By Beatrice on Mar 31, 2018 From Flickers in Time

Fail-Safe Directed by Sidney Lumet Written by Walter Bernstein from a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler 1964/USA Columbia Pictures Incorporated First viewing/Netflix rental Something must have been in the water in 1964. ?The public got not one but two apocalyptic thrillers. ?Dr. Strangelove... Read full article


Fail-Safe (1964)

By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

The year was 1963 and Columbia Pictures was in a pickle. They had two Cold War movies currently in production that basically told the same story but in very different ways. One was Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a farce based on the otherwise ... Read full article


Fail-Safe (1964)

By Raquel Stecher on Nov 30, -0001 From Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog

The year was 1963 and Columbia Pictures was in a pickle. They had two Cold War movies currently in production that basically told the same story but in very different ways. One was Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a farce based on the otherwise ... Read full article


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The President: How did you get to be a translator, Buck? You don't seem the academic type.
Buck: [nervously] I guess I have a talent for languages, sir. I hear a language once I pick it right up. I don't even know how. They found out about it in the Army.
The President: You sound sorry they did.
Buck: No, sir. It's a very interesting job.
[pauses]
Buck: That is, most of the time.
The President: Well, you did a good job today, Buck.
Buck: Thank you, sir. All I did was repeat what he said.
The President: You didn't freeze up. Another man might have.
Buck: You're the one who didn't, sir.
The President: I wonder what it's like outside? Looked like rain before.
Buck: The radio said it would clear by the afternoon.


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The large, metal phone the President uses to talk to the Soviet premier was actually a special phone used by explosives companies during blasting.
The film has no music - either score or source music - whatsoever.
Dana Elcar's first film role.
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