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.
J. Hoberman
Self
Frieda Altman
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Nancy Berg
Edward Binns
Dana Elcar
Henry Fonda
Larry Hagman
William Hansen
Walter Matthau
Dan O'Herlihy
Frank Overton
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