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Fail-Safe
In a 1964 Cold War, American sends the airplane to Moscow for a nuclear attack. But it is a mistake and an Air Force commander tries to contact with the planes. It fails because of jamming in radio communications between a commander and the plots. Whether a war is prevented?
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August 08, 2002
Wow! One of the scariest black and white films of all time.
October 21, 2015
Grim, bleak and highly claustrophobic ...
October 21, 2015
An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller.
October 20, 2004
Still impressive Cold War thriller from a time when WW III seemed inevitable.
February 02, 2009
Lumet, o mais subestimado dos diretores, mantém a tensão sempre constante, extraindo ainda grandes atuações de seu elenco e investindo num desfecho impactante e corajoso.
July 03, 2011
Lumet's tense political drama is riveting, but unfortunately it was released the same year as Kubrick's similarly-themed Dr. Strangelove, which was a satire and more thus more popular
June 29, 2011
It faithfully translates on the screen the power and seething drama of the Eugene Burdick-Harvey Wheeler book.
July 19, 2007
Tense, chilling and earnest Cold War political thriller.
January 26, 2006
Lumet sensibly avoids pyrotechnics in favour of tightening the psychological screws ...
October 21, 2015
Not only a damn good thriller, but a terrifying account of how easily such technology can malfunction.
October 21, 2015
It packs a melodramatic wallop that will rattle a lot of chattering teeth.
February 17, 2015
The cold war gets hot in this nuclear disaster film.