'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
2020, English.
Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.
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- 0h 20m
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- English
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Cast & crew
- J. HobermanSelf
- Frieda AltmanSelf (archive footage)
- Nancy BergSelf (archive footage)
- Edward BinnsSelf (archive footage)
- Dana ElcarSelf (archive footage)
- Henry FondaSelf (archive footage)
- Larry HagmanSelf (archive footage)
- William HansenSelf (archive footage)
- Walter MatthauSelf (archive footage)
- Dan O'HerlihySelf (archive footage)
- Frank OvertonSelf (archive footage)
- Hildy ParksSelf (archive footage)
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- Released
- 28 January 2020
- Country
- United States of America
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