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Fail-Safe (1964)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama, Suspense/Thriller
Release Date:January 1, 1964
Running time:112 minutes
Cast:Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver
Director:Sidney Lumet
Writer:Walter Bernstein, Eugene Burdick

Description: A transmission blunder sets a convoy of bombers off to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow, and it's too late to get them to turn back. The President and the military brass are forced to confront the apocalyptic demise that looms before them and resort to drastic measures to save the world.

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