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Fail safe / Columbia ; screenplay, Walter Bernstein ; produced by Max E. Youngstein ; directed by Sidney Lumet.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 033 017 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 1011.
- Criterion collection ; 1011
- Standardized Title:
- Fail-safe (Motion picture : 1964)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burdick, Eugene--Film adaptations.
- Burdick, Eugene.
- Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004--Film adaptations.
- Wheeler, Harvey.
- Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004.
- Nuclear warfare--Drama.
- Nuclear warfare.
- Cold War--Drama.
- Cold War.
- International relations--Drama.
- International relations.
- Nuclear weapons--Drama.
- Nuclear weapons.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- Film adaptations.
- War films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded sheet : 18 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- black and white
- stamping
- Edition:
- DVD special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, region 1; 16:9 wide screen presentation (1.85:1); Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- The 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.
- Participant:
- Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Gerald Hirschfeld ; editor, Ralph Rosenblum.
- Notes:
- Title and credits from screen.
- Based on Fail-safe / by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.
- Wide screen (1.85:1)
- Special features: 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"; an essay by critic Bilge Ebiri (on insert).
- ISBN:
- 9781681436814
- 1681436817
- OCLC:
- 1129259966
- Publisher Number:
- 715515240512
- CC3109DDVD The Criterion Collection
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