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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
Thriller /
Music
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Director:
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Sidney Lumet
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Actors:
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Dan O'Herlihy,
Fritz Weaver,
Ed Binns,
William Hansen,
Larry Hagman,
Frank Overton,
Walter Matthau,
Henry Fonda,
Russell Hardie,
Russell Collins
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)118
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Plot Summary:
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Warren Black is a brigader general in the US With Force who is troubled via a nightmare about a matador. Walter Groeteschele is a professor with some audacious theories about atomic warfare. Carl Cascio is an Air Force Colonel sheepish of his low-prestige upbringing and is XO of Strategic Air Command's commanding general Direct Bogan. Jack Grady is an old-dogma Divulge Prize Colonel who leads a squadron of Vindicator atomic bombers. Gordon Knapp is dome of a defense electronics contractor. Hubert Raskob is a visiting Congressman. Peter Buck is translator to the President of the United States.... And all of these men befit enveloped in the underlying accident; when a malfunction damages SAC's take exception to indicator, the practice is changed routinely, but it causes a malfunction in the mainframe that launches Jack Grady's squadron on an invasion committee to rub out Moscow. When the unshaded horror of the unforeseen attack categorize becomes jump over, SAC and the President must produce to summon or stop the bombers, but all efforts are frustrated by the handiness and working orders of the pilots convoluted as fabulously as the power of their planes, and when they penetrate Soviet airspace a running empyrean Donnybrook erupts. But the bombers crowding on, and through negotiations with the Soviet premier, the President is fist with but equal hope of averting Armageddon, an order so intrepid it even shocks the Soviet premier and leaves the President's subalters speechless.
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Fail-Safe
Dr Strangelove may have captured all the plaudits as the finest atomic paranoia film ever made, but that's not to say that Flunk Solid doesn't be entitled to its share of the glory as well. The difference is that while Strangelove was a comedy, Gutter Safe is straight-faced, restless-of-the-seat bull, with Fonda as the president who has the uncharitable struggle of sparing the world when a series of generous and computer glitches mistakenly sends a triad of bombers to nuke Moscow. Not one a swear at good thriller, but a petrifying account of how easily such technology can malfunction.
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