Fail_safe.

Resource Information

The work Fail_safe. represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Fail_safe.

Statement of responsibility

[presented by] Maysville Pictures, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television ; live broadcast direction by Martin Pasetta, Jr. ; teleplay by Walter Bernstein ; directed by Stephen A. Frears

Title variation

Fail safe

Creator

• Fail_safe (Television program : 2000)

Contributor

• Maysville Pictures, Inc
• Warner Bros. Television
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Azaria, Hank, 1964-
• Bernstein, Walter
• Burdick, Eugene
• Cheadle, Don
• Clooney, George
• Cromwell, James
• Dennehy, Brian
• Diehl, John, 1950-
• Dreyfuss, Richard
• Elliott, Sam, 1944-
• Frears, Stephen
• Keitel, Harvey
• Lloyd, Norman, 1914-
• Pasetta, Martin, Jr
• Smitrovich, Bill
• Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004
• Wyle, Noah, 1971-

Subject

• Cold War -- Drama
• Made-for-TV movies
• Nuclear warfare -- Drama
• Nuclear weapons -- Drama
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Drama
• Television adaptations
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs
• War television programs

Genre

• Drama
• Made-for-TV movies
• Television adaptations
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War television programs

Language

eng

Summary

The retelling of the classic Cold War doomsday thriller. A computer malfunction triggers the transmission of nuclear-attack codes to a U.S. bomber squadron. The orders are irreversible, the primary target is Moscow, and the President, his advisors and military leaders race time to head off global catastrophe. Recalling the adrenaline-rush of early TV drama, this movie was staged and telecast live in black-and-white, establishing an immediate sense of history unfolding

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Date time place

Broadcast live as a made-for-TV movie on April 9, 2000

Dewey number

791.45/72

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

Closed-captioned

LC call number

PN1992.77

LC item number

.F3557344 2007

PerformerNote

Hank Azaria, Don Cheadle, George Clooney, James Cromwell, Brian Dennehy, John Diehl, Richard Dreyfuss, Sam Elliott, Harvey Keitel, Norman Lloyd, William Smitrovich, Noah Wyle

Runtime

84

Technique

live action