| Fail Safe - D 8 BUR | |||||
| Columbia TriStar (1964) | |||||
| Drama, Science Fiction, War | |||||
|
In Collection
#494 |
|||||
|
0*
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|
|
||||||||||||
| Dan O'Herlihy | Brigadier General Warren A. Black | |
| Walter Matthau | Professor Groeteschele | |
| Frank Overton | General Bogan S.A.C. Omaha | |
| Ed Binns | Col. Jack Grady | |
| Fritz Weaver | Colonel Cascio | |
| Henry Fonda | The President | |
| Larry Hagman | Buck | |
| William Hansen | Defense Secretary Swenson | |
| Russell Hardie | General Stark | |
| Russell Collins | Gordon Knapp |
| Director |
|
||
| Producer | Sidney Lumet
Max E. Youngstein |
||
| Writer | Walter Bernstein
Eugene Burdick |
|
When an electrical error triggers a nuclear bomber strike on Moscow, the United States has to come up with a way of preventing the incident from becoming the start of World War Three. The President (Henry Fonda), assisted by advisers Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black (Dan O'Herlihy), Prof. Groeteschele (Walter Matthau) and Gen. Bogan (Frank Overton) and translator Buck (Larry Hagman), must come to an agonizing decision to keep the disaster from causing the end of the human race. |
|
|
||||||||