'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War(2020)

January 28, 2020
20m

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.

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Original Language

en

Country

United States of America

Production

The Criterion Collection

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