'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
- Movies
- 2020-01-28
- EN
- Released
- 0h 20m
- US
- Documentary
Production
The Criterion Collection
Storyline
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.