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Fail Safe is a american film of genre Drama directed by Stephen Frears released in USA on 9 april 2000 with George Clooney
Fail Safe (2001)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 9 april 2000
Length 1h26
Directed by Stephen Frears
OriginUSA
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Rating73%
Fail Safe is a 2000 televised broadcast play, based on Fail-Safe, the Cold War novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. The play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS, starred George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel, and Noah Wyle, and was one of the few live dramas on American television since its so-called Golden Age in the 1950s and 1960s. The broadcast was introduced by Walter Cronkite (his introduction, also broadcast in black and white, is included in the DVD releases of the film).
The novel was first adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet; the TV version is shorter than the 1964 film due to commercial airtime and omits a number of subplots.
Synopsis
The time is the early-to-mid-1960s, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. An unknown aircraft approaches North America from Europe. American bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are scrambled to their fail safe points near Russia. The bombers have orders not to proceed past their fail safe points without receiving a special attack code. The original "threat" is proven to be innocuous and recall orders are issued. However, due to a technical failure, the attack code is transmitted to Group Six, which consists of six Vindicator supersonic bombers and four escort fighters. Colonel Grady, the head of the group, tries to contact Omaha to verify the fail-safe order (called Positive Check), but due to Soviet radar jamming, Grady cannot hear Omaha. Concluding that the attack order and the radar jamming could only mean nuclear war, Grady commands Group Six towards Moscow, their intended destination.Actors
George Clooney
(Col. Jack Grady)
Walter Cronkite
(Himself - Host)
Richard Dreyfuss
(President)
Noah Wyle
(Buck)
Brian Dennehy
(Gen. Bogan)
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