Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011,
Bernstein, Walter,
Youngstein, Max E.,
O'Herlihy, Dan, 1919-2005,
Matthau, Walter,
Overton, Frank, 1918-1967,
Binns, Edward, 1916-1990,
Hagman, Larry,
Weaver, Fritz, 1926-2016,
Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982,
Hirschfeld, Gerald,
Rosenblum, Ralph,
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Burdick, Eugene. Fail-safe.
Fail-safe (Motion picture : 1964)
|
|---|
| Other authors / contributors: | Columbia Pictures Corporation, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
|
|---|
| ISBN: | 9781681436814
1681436817
|
|---|
| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
stamping
|
|---|
| Sound characteristics: | digital
optical
mono
|
|---|
| Video characteristics: | NTSC
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | video file
DVD video
region 1
|
|---|
| Notes: | Title and credits from screen.
From the novel by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
Wide screen (1.85:1)
Features: New 4K digital restoration; Audio commentary from 2000 featuring director Sidney Lumet; New interview with film critic J. Hoberman on 1960s nuclear paranoia and Cold War films; Fail Safe Revisited, a short documentary film from 2000 including interviews with Lumet, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, and actor Dan O'Herlihy; An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri.
Director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld ; editor, Ralph Rosenblum.
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, William Hansen, Russell Hardie, Russell Collns, Sorrell Booke.
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 16:9 wide screen presentation (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono.
In English.
|
|---|
| Summary: | "This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Sidney Lumet wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday fears of the Cold War era, making the most of a modest budget and limited sets to create an atmosphere of clammy claustrophobia and astronomically high stakes. Starring Henry Fonda as a coolheaded U.S. president and Walter Matthau as a trigger-happy political theorist, Fail Safe is a long-underappreciated alarm bell of a film, sounding an urgent warning about the deadly logic of mutually assured destruction"--Container.
|
|---|
| Target Audience: | Rating: Not rated.
|
|---|
| Standard no.: | 715515240512
|
|---|
| Publisher's no.: | CC3109DDVD The Criterion Collection
|
|---|
