'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
Cast & Crew
J. Hoberman
as Self
Frieda Altman
as Self (archive footage)
Nancy Berg
as Self (archive footage)
Edward Binns
as Self (archive footage)
Dana Elcar
as Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda
as Self (archive footage)
Larry Hagman
as Self (archive footage)
William Hansen
as Self (archive footage)
Walter Matthau
as Self (archive footage)
Overview
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.
