Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' (2000) (V)

User Rating:

4.0/10   

Director:

Jeffrey Schwarz

Genre:

Documentary | Short

Plot Keywords:

U.S. President | Cold War | Film Making | Atomic Bomb | Making Of

Cast

Sidney Lumet	...	Himself
George Clooney	...	Himself
Walter Bernstein	...	Himself
Dan O'Herlihy	...	Himself
Lyndon Johnson	...	Himself (voice) (archive footage)

Runtime:

USA:16 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Company:

Automat Pictures

Trivia:

This making-of is featured on the Special Edition DVD for Fail-Safe (1964).

Goofs:

Factual errors: While Sidney Lumet complains about the it's-not-possible-for-this-to-happen disclaimer placed by Columbia Pictures at the end of Fail-Safe (1964), he notes that there was no similar disclaimer for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). In fact, there is a disclaimer about the "stated position" of the Department of Defense at the beginning of the US release (and most seen-on-television) versions of Dr. Strangelove.

Movie Connections:

Features Fail-Safe (1964)