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Fail Safe

Release Year
1964
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Drama
Thriller
War
Directed By
Sidney Lumet
Fail Safe

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

Cast & Crew

Cast

Walter Matthau

Prof. Groeteschele

Fritz Weaver

Col. Cascio

Larry Hagman

Buck

Frank Overton

Gen. Bogan

Edward Binns

Col. Jack Grady

Dan O'Herlihy

Brig. Gen. Warren A. Black

William Hansen

Defense Secretary Swenson

Russell Hardie

Gen. Stark

Janet Ward

Helen Grady

Dom DeLuise

TSgt. Collins

Russell Collins

Knapp

Sorrell Booke

Congressman Raskob

Crew

Sidney Lumet

Director

Walter Bernstein

Screenplay

Gerald Hirschfeld

Director of Photography

Ralph Rosenblum

Editor

Anna Hill Johnstone

Costume Design

Max E. Youngstein

Producer

Charles H. Maguire

Producer

Eugene Burdick

Novel

Harvey Wheeler

Novel

Jack Fitzstephens

Sound Editor

William Swift

Sound mixer

Eugene Burdick

Script

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