'Fail Safe' and the Cold War

'Fail Safe' and the Cold War

19 mins | Documentary | Jan. 28, 2020

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.

'Fail Safe' and the Cold War

19 mins | Documentary | Jan. 28, 2020

'Fail Safe' and the Cold War
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.
Producers The Criterion Collection
Original title 'Fail Safe' and the Cold War
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Cast

J. Hoberman

as Self

Henry Fonda

as Self (archive footage)