'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
20 minutes
2020
HD
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.
Genres Documentary
Stars J. Hoberman, Frieda Altman, Nancy Berg, Edward Binns, Dana Elcar
Directors Kim Hendrickson, Jonathan Turell, Peter Becker, Curtis Tsui, Gary Bradley
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War