Fail Safe

This dystopia is set at the height of the Cold War, in which a computer error gives an American bomb squadron the order to attack Moscow. Suddenly the world is on the brink of nuclear catastrophe ... Long in the shadow of Kubrick's DR. STRANGELOVE from the same year, the urgency of Lumet's warning has now been recognised. And Henry Fonda plays the level-headed US president. (Florian Widegger)

Newly restored version