'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Release: 2020-01-28
·Runtime: 20m
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
The Criterion Collection
Cast
William Hansen
as Self (archive footage)
Walter Matthau
as Self (archive footage)
Janet Ward
as Self (archive footage)
Fritz Weaver
as Self (archive footage)
Edward Binns
as Self (archive footage)
Dana Elcar
as Self (archive footage)
Dan O'Herlihy
as Self (archive footage)
Frank Overton
as Self (archive footage)
Hildy Parks
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
Larry Hagman
as Self (archive footage)
