Fail Safe (1963) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
Fail Safe (1963) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- USA, 1963
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
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Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - Item number:
- 9626004
- UPC/EAN:
- 5050629025231
- Release date:
- 3.2.2020
- Series:
- Criterion Collection
- Genre:
- Krieg
- Playing time ca.:
- 112 Min.
- Director:
- Sidney Lumet
- Actor:
- Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman, Henry Fonda, Fritz Weaver
- German title:
- Angriffsziel Moskau
- Language:
- Englisch
- Picture:
- Widescreen
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.
Special Features
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
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 from 2000 including interviews with Lumet, screenwriter Walter Bernstein, and actor Dan O’Herlihy
PLUS: An essay by film critic Bilge Ebiri
Reviews
Lexikon des Int.Films: "Beklemmende Vision von Sicherheitsmechanismen, die sich verselbständigen."More from Sidney Lumet
