MOVIE

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

Name: 'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-01-28
Cast: J. Hoberman, Frieda Altman, Nancy Berg, Edward Binns, Dana Elcar

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.

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 perva… + more