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2020

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Fail safe / Columbia Pictures ; director, Sidney Lumet.
Edition:	DVD special edition.
Publisher, Date:	[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Description:	1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: Not rated.
Series:	Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1011.
Subjects:	International relations -- Drama. Nuclear weapons -- Drama. Nuclear warfare -- Drama. Cold War -- Drama.
Genre:	Feature films. Fiction films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:	Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011, film director. Fonda, Henry, 1905-1982, actor. Matthau, Walter, actor. O'Herlihy, Dan, 1919-2005, actor. Overton, Frank, 1918-1967, actor. Columbia Pictures, production company. Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Other Title:	Fail-safe (Motion picture : 1964)
Notes:	Title from sell sheet. Wide screen (1.85:1) Originally released as a motion picture in 1964. Special features: audio commentary from 2000 featuring director Sidney Lumet; new interview with film critic J. Hoberman on 1960s nucklear paranoia and Cold War films; "Fail-safe revisited"; plus an essay by critic Bilge Ebiri. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'herlihy, Frank Overton. DVD, wide screen (1.85:1). Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
ISBN:	9781681436814 1681436817 9781681436814 : DVD 1681436817 : DVD
Publisher Number:	CC3109DDVD
Other Number:	1129259966
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	2
Control Number:	819920
# Local items in:	2
# System items in:	2
Call Number:	DVD MOVIE Fail saf

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