Fail Safe - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)

Fail Safe - Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)This unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all too plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States militarys chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Sidney Lumet wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday fears of the Cold War era, making the most of a modest budget

actors Charlton Heston & Janet Leigh

Audio commentary by film noir specialists Alain Silver and James Ursini

having worked hard for three years only to see the quality of their gigs decline as the hits stopped coming

That's some catch

watching unflinchingly as the weak scrabble and struggle against their inevitable fate

she tracks emerging trends and handpicks talents

Lewis Carroll and a 'sexy Alan Bennett'

she finds that she

1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services

for having seen his own misery

The third book in the Detective Galileo series

astronomy and law