Fail-Safe (1964)

Calificación de los usuarios:

8.0/10   

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Escritores:

Walter Bernstein (screenplay)
Eugene Burdick (novel) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

7 octubre 1964 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!

Plot:

American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?

Plot Keywords:

Bomber | General | Strategic Air Command | Colonel | U.S. Air Force

Premios:

3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Frightening

Reparto

Dan O'Herlihy	...	General Black
Walter Matthau	...	Groeteschele
Frank Overton	...	General Bogan
Ed Binns	...	Colonel Grady
Fritz Weaver	...	Colonel Cascio
Henry Fonda	...	The President
Larry Hagman	...	Buck
William Hansen	...	Secretary Swenson
Russell Hardie	...	General Stark
Russell Collins	...	Knapp
Sorrell Booke	...	Congressman Raskob
Nancy Berg	...	Ilsa Wolfe
John Connell	...	Thomas
Frank Simpson	...	Sullivan
Hildy Parks	...	Betty Black

También conocida como:

Punto límite (Spain) [es]

Duración:

112 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Clasificación:

Canada:PG (Ontario) | West Germany:16 | Australia:PG | UK:PG | Finland:K-8 | Sweden:15

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

The big screen in the control room at Omaha was entirely front-projection, and had to be very carefully contrasted to appear clearly on black and white film. This posed a problem for the crew, as the air in the room had to be totally clear of dust so as not to disrupt the image (and make the projection obvious). The screen in the war-room used the same film-stock but was rear-projection.

Errores:

Errores en Geografía: Many errors in the map displays. For example, Bering Strait is shown too narrow and twisty, with part of Russia extending north of the Seward Peninsula; and in the first two scales of map shown, Hudson Strait is too narrow and a nonexistent island appears southeast of Baffin Island.

Citas:

US Ambassador: [over the phone] I can hear the sound of explosions from the north east. The sky is very bright. All lit up.
[phone melts and high pitched whining sound starts]

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "The Governor & J.J.: File Safe (#2.5)" (1970)

Frightening

I'm a child of the 1970s, but this movie still scared me. You didn't have to grow up during the 50s or 60s to appreciate this. Anways in the 1980s, when Reagan was in office, nuclear war seemed a very real prospect. This movie is deadly serious, NO humor at all, and lit very sparsely. The battles between Russian and US planes seen as blips on a huge screen, is just as scary as if we had seen it realistically. Frightening, harrowing...hard to believe this film still has that effect now. Well worth watching but it's very very grim. Also, Fonda is superb as the President.