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TU PUNTUACIÓN
Una falla técnica envía aviones estadounidenses a Moscú para realizar un ataque nuclear. ¿Se puede evitar una guerra total?Una falla técnica envía aviones estadounidenses a Moscú para realizar un ataque nuclear. ¿Se puede evitar una guerra total?Una falla técnica envía aviones estadounidenses a Moscú para realizar un ataque nuclear. ¿Se puede evitar una guerra total?
- Nominado a 1 premio BAFTA
- 3 nominaciones en total
Dom DeLuise
- Sgt. Collins
- (as Dom DeLouise)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThe "computer-generated" image on the control-room screen (including the map of the world, the planes and the explosions) was entirely drawn and animated by hand.
- PifiasThe interior shots of the bombers, Convair B-58 Hustlers (see Trivia), actually were shot inside of a commercial airline simulator then under repair at a a New York airport. The three crew members sit within feet of each other, in an open cockpit layout. In an actual B-58, the world's first fly-by-wire and supersonic bomber (and capable of twice the speed of sound), the three-man crew of pilot, bombardier/navigator, and defense systems specialist were seated in-line and had no physical contact with one another. To make survivable ejection possible on such a high-speed aircraft, each compartment was specifically designed as wholly contained clam-shell "pod" that would be ejected intact if the need arose. As a result, the crew had to rely on an internal telecommunications system to talk, or a string-and-pulley system that ran along the cabin wall to exchange notes if those systems failed. It's speculated that this pod design was incorporated as a presidential safeguard on modern 747 versions of Air Force One, as implied in the film Air Force One (El avión del presidente) (1997).
- Citas
[last lines]
Brigadier General Warren A. Black: The Matador, the Matador... me... me
- Créditos adicionales[FINAL CREDIT]: The producers of this film wish to stress that it is the stated position of the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force that a rigidly enforced system of safeguards and controls insure that occurrences such as those depicted in this story cannot happen
- ConexionesFeatured in Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
Reseña destacada
A cold war classic
This cold war era classic certainly made you think if it's storyline was possible. The plausibility of the solution to avert an all-out retaliatory nuclear war that the American and Soviet leaders decide on in the film is still debated but this film captures the essence of the cold war paranoia in this film directed by Sidney Lumet. This was Lumet's seventh film of his career and he was known for his dramas that were screen stage plays with 12 Angry Men, Long Days Journey Into Night and The Pawnbroker. Henry Fonda heads up an excellent cast including Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Binns and Frank Overton. In 1958 author Peter George wrote the novel Red Alert and would go on to win an out of court settlement over the authors of Fail Safe, Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, on plagiarism charges. Interestingly the dramatic novel Red Alert would serve as the basic premise for this dramatic film and in the dark comedy Dr. Strangelove which were both released in the same year by the same studio. Good tension and drama from this script by Walter Bernstein. Weather it could or couldn't have happened as it did in this story it's still a compelling film 42 years later. I would give it an 8.5 out of 10.
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- johno-21
- 20 mar 2006
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Punt límit
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Westbury, Long Island, Nueva York, Estados Unidos(Roosevelt Field: President's bunker)
- Empresa productora
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Taquilla
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 3.924.000 US$
- Duración1 hora 52 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.85 : 1
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