Fail Safe (1964) B&W - One of the best movies ever made. Free - on the youtube

[Marcus IM]

This and Dr Strangelove.

If you've never seen it, now is the time.

A huge cast of great actors.

Fail Safe (1964)

Director - Sidney Lumet

Writers - Walter Bernstein, Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler

Stars - Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver

[cachukis]

1. While great, the book was better.

[Marcus IM]

2. Indeed. Sidney Lumet did his interpretation, and it's very impactful.

[cachukis]

3. Great movie.

[CTyankee]

5. I only saw the movie. Scared the hell out of me. Fonda, as U.S. President, was chillingly portrayed. I was a young

mother, raising 3 small children and it caused me a great deal of anxiety...

[Iggo]

9. I was born in '61, and that world was our reality.

So, now that I think of it, in ‘64 my mother was a young mother raising three kids.

Cuban Missile Crisis and Kennedy assassination are things that both happened when I was a baby. Helluva time to be young parents. I don’t envy what you guys went through.

[cachukis]

14. My father was a voracious reader. In 1963 my parents

rented a cabin on Newfound Lake in NH for a week to be near her childhood friend and family. It rained pretty much the whole week.
My mother had just finished the book and she couldn't put it down either. I was 11.
I had read Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe in the third grade. Didn't understand them beyond the adventure.
My mother was an OR scrub at Mass General and dated the Harvard's from the medical school. She played football with Bobby Kennedy's crowd in Hyannisport.
I watched the debate in Brant Rock and climbed on the roof to adjust the antenna. We were into the game.
The cold war entered all our lives.
I read the book in 4 days.
Summer 1963.

[Disaffected]

4. No go in Canada.

Any other source?

[Marcus IM]

6. Tubi SD for free. It is on Prime for rent.

[Disaffected]

12. Thank you!

[Swede]

7. George Clooney did an excellent version a few years ago.

America's Ambassador in Moscow is asked to stay on the phone when the bombers get there. The President is informed the bombs go off, there will be a high pitched squeel, caused by the evaporation of the Ambassadors phone.

Ambassador: I can hear the sound of explosions from the north east. The sky is very bright. All lit up...

The shrill sounds cuts him off.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. It's a really good book, too. nt

[2naSalit]

10. It's age restricted and requires signin.

[Mr.Bill]

11. Excellent movie.

It's the serious version of Dr. Strangelove.

[Frasier Balzov]

13. Walter Bernstein had been a blacklisted writer.

And Peter George was the author of the source material for Dr. Strangelove.

[edbermac]

15. Dr S was better.

I never bought the idea of the President dropping the bomb on New York at the end.