'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.
Cast
J. Hoberman
Self
Frieda Altman
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Berg
Self (archive footage)
Edward Binns
Self (archive footage)
Dana Elcar
Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda
Self (archive footage)
Larry Hagman
Self (archive footage)
William Hansen
Self (archive footage)
Walter Matthau
Self (archive footage)
Dan O'Herlihy
Self (archive footage)
Frank Overton
Self (archive footage)
Hildy Parks
Self (archive footage)
Janet Ward
Self (archive footage)
Fritz Weaver
Self (archive footage)
Recommended
A Toxic Love Story
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
The Assassination of Jesse James: Death of an Outlaw
McQueen
Come See Me in the Good Light
My Mom Jayne
28 Up
Seduced and Abandoned
Marvel's Behind the Mask
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
In the Realms of the Unreal
Directed by John Ford
Room 237
The Class of ‘92
Voyeur
4 Little Girls
Movie & TV metadata from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.