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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

2020
Directed byUnknown
0h 20m

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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J. HobermanSelfFrieda AltmanSelf (archive footage)Nancy BergSelf (archive footage)
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Edward Binns
Self (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)
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Documentary
STATUSReleased
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NR

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