Fail-Safe

Sidney Lumet’s FAIL SAFE Is Anything But

Nov 3, 2015 Nathanael Hood 0

The true terror behind Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (1964) isn’t that things went wrong, it’s that they went right. True, a mechanical error sent the signal for American flight crews to drop nuclear bombs on […]

Movies

President Fonda in Sidney Lumet’s FAIL-SAFE

Aug 11, 2013 The Retro Set 0

Sidney Lumet’s 1964 political thriller Fail-Safe is one of greatest Cold War films to come out of the Cold War era. This bleak, atomic drama is a film on par with Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece Dr. […]