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Other television credits include “Fail-Safe” and the NBC miniseries “Uprising.”
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He also dealt with such matters as the Holocaust ("The Pawnbroker"), nuclear war ("Fail-Safe") and the convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ("Daniel").
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Five-Point Elk: 270 Winchester, Winchester factory ammo, 140 Grain Fail-Safe, 2,900 fps.
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Most notably, he co-starred with Henry Fonda in Sidney Lumet's gripping tale of nuclear Armageddon, "Fail-Safe" (1964), followed up by a third-billed part in Edward Dmytryk's crackerjack suspense entry "Mirage" (1965), starring Gregory Peck and Diane Baker.
John Farr: Missing Mr. Matthau John Farr 2010
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Movies like "Dr. Strangelove" and "Fail-Safe" conveyed the notion that we had indeed put our fate in the hands of madmen.
H-Bombs on a Hair Trigger Arthur Herman 2011
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Five-Point Elk: 270 Winchester, Winchester factory ammo, 140 Grain Fail-Safe, 2,900 fps.
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Fail-Safe (1964): After a computer error sends a squadron of nuclear-armed American bombers on a mission to annihilate Moscow, the U.S.
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Perhaps suggesting the cyclical nature of such works, both On the Beach and Fail-Safe were remade for television in 2000.
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Of course, the whole topic of pop political novels of the Sixties makes me also think of Seven Days In May, and Fail-Safe.
A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury 2009
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Most notably, he co-starred with Henry Fonda in Sidney Lumet's gripping tale of nuclear Armageddon, "Fail-Safe" (1964), followed up by a third-billed part in Edward Dmytryk's crackerjack suspense entry "Mirage" (1965), starring Gregory Peck and Diane Baker.
John Farr: Missing Mr. Matthau John Farr 2010
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