'Fail Safe' Will Have You Sitting on the Brink of Eternity!

Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Edward Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, William Hansen, Russell Collins, Sorrell Brooke, Nancy Berg

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"If we can't convince them it's an accident we're trying to correct by any means, we're going to have something on our hands that nobody bargained for, and only a lunatic wants!" – Brig. General Warren A. "Blackie" Black

Why watch this? This film fictitiously documents our worst fears from the Cold War conflict.

Plot Summary: This story centers on a military crisis where a technical malfunction mistakenly sends American bombers to launch a nuclear attack on Moscow. The President of the United States desperately attempts to convince the Soviet leader that this is an accident and works with him to try to stop the bombers before they can drop their payloads. The film explores the escalating tension and the difficult decisions made to prevent a full-scale nuclear war triggered by this critical error.

Dad's Preview: This intense film may be the most horrifying war film every made, and there's almost no violence on screen. As the plot enfolds, the tension is thick enough to cut with a knife. The threat of nuclear war should scare the hell out of everybody. The major superpowers have the capability to destroy each other, and this film shows the fragility upon which balances our country's, and our world's, continued peace - or annihilation.

Columbia Pictures