Fail-Safe

Released 1964 by Columbia Pictures, black and white 35mm Academy ratio, mono sound, 112 mins.

Production:

• Directed and Produced by Sidney Lumet
• Written by Eugene Burdick (author of the 1958 Ugly American) and Harvey Wheeler from their 1962 novel Fail Safe.
• Cinematography by Gerald Hirschfeld
• Film Editing by Ralph Rosenblum
• Production Design by Albert Brenner
• Set Decoration by J.C. Delaney
• Costume Design by Anna Hill Johnstone
• Second Unit Director Harry Falk
• Sound by Jack Fitzstephen sand William Swift

Cast:

• Dan O'Herlihy as Gen. Warren Black
• Walter Matthau as Groeteschele
• Frank Overton as General Bogan
• Ed Binns as Col. Jack Grady
• Fritz Weaver as Colonel Cascio
• Henry Fonda as The President
• Larry Hagman as Buck
• William Hansen as Secretary Swenson
• Russell Hardie as General Stark
• Russell Collins as Gordon Knapp
• Sorrell Booke as Congressman Raskob
• Nancy Berg as Ilsa Wolfe
• John Connell as Radionman Thomas
• Frank Simpson as Sullivan
• Hildy Parks as Betty Black
• Janet Ward as Helen Grady
• Dom DeLuise as Sergeant Collins
• Dana Elcar as Mr. Foster
• Stewart Germain as Lou Cascio
• Louise Larabee as Mrs. Cascio
• Frieda Altman as Jennie

Links:

• Credits from the IMDB for the title Fail-Safe
• Other Cold War films include Seven Days in May (1964) and Dr. Strangelove (1964)
• Cold War Paranoia

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