'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War (2020)
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.
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Cast
- J. Hoberman — Self
- Frieda Altman — Self (archive footage)
- Nancy Berg — Self (archive footage)
- Edward Binns — Self (archive footage)
- Dana Elcar — Self (archive footage)
- Henry Fonda — Self (archive footage)
- Larry Hagman — Self (archive footage)
- William Hansen — Self (archive footage)
- Walter Matthau — Self (archive footage)
- Dan O'Herlihy — Self (archive footage)
- Frank Overton — Self (archive footage)
- Hildy Parks — Self (archive footage)
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