danoherlihy &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:danoherlihy @settima@zirk.us Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:57:38 +0200 Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/fail-safe-1964 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964)/div div class="month" Apr/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 5/div div class="occasion" National Nebraska Day/div div class="img" Fail Safe (1964)/div div class="caption" General Black (Dan O'Herlihy) being briefed. DP: Gerald Hirschfeld./div div class="txt" The one that got bombed by Strangelove.\ "You're talking about a different kind of war." ### – General Stark\ ##### Both Lumet's Fail Safe and #Kubrick's #ColdWar comedy came out in 1964, right after the #CubaCrisis. The world was awash with the realisation that the bomb, The Bomb, wasn't merely proverbial flexing. And when crisis happens, there are two options. One is to laugh, the other is to grasp. Sadly for Lumet, and the world, his Fail Safe was released while everyone was still too busy chuckling./div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalNebraskaDay #SidneyLumet #EugeneBurdick #HarveyWheeler #HenryFonda #WalterMatthau #DanOHerlihy #GeraldHirschfeld #BookAdaptation #drama #Nebraska #USA #1960s/div /section ]]>

Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964)

Apr

5

National Nebraska Day

Fail Safe (1964)

General Black (Dan O'Herlihy) being briefed. DP: Gerald Hirschfeld.

The one that got bombed by Strangelove.

“You're talking about a different kind of war.”

– General Stark

Both Lumet's Fail Safe and #Kubrick's #ColdWar comedy came out in 1964, right after the #CubaCrisis. The world was awash with the realisation that the bomb, The Bomb, wasn't merely proverbial flexing. And when crisis happens, there are two options. One is to laugh, the other is to grasp. Sadly for Lumet, and the world, his Fail Safe was released while everyone was still too busy chuckling.

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #NationalNebraskaDay #SidneyLumet #EugeneBurdick #HarveyWheeler #HenryFonda #WalterMatthau #DanOHerlihy #GeraldHirschfeld #BookAdaptation #drama #Nebraska #USA #1960s

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