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.
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)
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Public Speaking70%
Room 23761%
Sherman's March67%
Directed by John Ford70%
McQueen74%
Above Majestic73%
The Class of ‘9271%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Voyeur59%
The Captains63%
Report61%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Extremis69%
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A Plastic Ocean75%
My Mom Jayne80%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
John Candy: I Like Me78%