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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Fail_safe (Television program : 2000)

Title:

Fail_safe [videorecording] / [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.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007]

Description:

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Nuclear warfare -- Drama.

Nuclear weapons -- Drama.

Cold War -- Drama.

Made-for-TV movies.

War television programs.

Thrillers (Television programs)

Television adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union -- Drama.

Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Drama.

Other Author:

Pasetta, Martin.

Bernstein, Walter.

Frears, Stephen.

Azaria, Hank, 1964-

Cheadle, Don.

Clooney, George.

Cromwell, James.

Dennehy, Brian.

Diehl, John, 1950-

Dreyfuss, Richard.

Elliott, Sam, 1944-

Keitel, Harvey.

Lloyd, Norman, 1914-2021

Smitrovich, Bill.

Wyle, Noah, 1971-

Burdick, Eugene. Fail-safe.

Wheeler, Harvey, 1918-2004. Fail-safe.

Maysville Pictures, Inc.

Warner Bros. Television.

Warner Home Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Fail safe.

Notes:

Title from container.

Based on the 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler and the 1964 motion picture.

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

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

DVD, region 1, widescreen (matted) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.

Closed-captioned.

ISBN:

0790752360

9780790752365

Publisher Number:

18653

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

196219

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD TV Fail saf

Medium:

[videorecording]