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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
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.
Cast
Cast
J. Hoberman
Self
Frieda Altman
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Berg
Self (archive footage)
Edward Binns
Self (archive footage)
Dana Elcar
Self (archive footage)
Henry Fonda
Self (archive footage)
Larry Hagman
Self (archive footage)
William Hansen
Self (archive footage)
Walter Matthau
Self (archive footage)
Dan O'Herlihy
Self (archive footage)
Frank Overton
Self (archive footage)
Hildy Parks
Self (archive footage)
Janet Ward
Self (archive footage)
Fritz Weaver
Self (archive footage)
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