Fail-Safe
1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet
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Summary
Fail-Safe is a film[1]. Fail-Safe ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,829 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Director: Sidney Lumet[3]
- Screenwriter: Eugene Burdick[4], Walter Bernstein[5], Harvey Wheeler[6]
- Genre: thriller film[7], political thriller film[8]
- Based on: Fail-Safe[9]
- Cast member: Henry Fonda[10], Dan O'Herlihy[11], Walter Matthau[12], Frank Overton[13], Larry Hagman[14], Sorrell Booke[15], Dom DeLuise[16], Edward Binns[17], Fritz Weaver[18], Russell Collins[19], Charles Tyner[20], Dana Elcar[21], Hildy Parks[22], William Hansen[23]
- Producer: Max E. Youngstein[24], Sidney Lumet[25]
- Collection: Museum of Modern Art[26]
- Production company: Columbia Pictures[27]
- Director of photography: Gerald Hirschfeld[28]
- Original language of film or TV show: English[29]
- Commons category: Fail Safe (1964 film)[30]
- Distribution format: video on demand[31]
- Review score: 8/10[32], 93%[33], 75/100[34]
- Color: black-and-white[35]
- Country of origin: United States[36]
- Publication date: September 15, 1964[37], 1964[38], October 7, 1964[39]
- Distributed by: Columbia Pictures[40], Netflix[41]
- Narrative location: Washington, D.C.[42], New York City[43], Nebraska[44]
- Main subject: aviation[45], Cold War[46], nuclear warfare[47]
- Film editor: Ralph Rosenblum[48]
- Nominated for: United Nations Awards[49]
- Title: Fail-Safe[50]
- Has characteristic: film based on a novel[51]
- After a work by: Eugene Burdick[52], Harvey Wheeler[53]
- FSK film rating: FSK 16[54]
Why It Matters
Fail-Safe has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] Fail-Safe is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]