1964 · thriller · drama · war
Fail Safe (1964)
Directed by Sidney Lumet1h 52m1964
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.
Our read: Fail Safe (1964) (1964) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded thriller · drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme thriller / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
- epic-stakes
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