Word: humdrum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scene after scene, Fail Safe plays like a humdrum remake of Kubrick's picture.* In both films a unit of the Strategic Air Command launches an H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union-in Dr. Strangelove the attack is inspired by a goofy general, in Fail Safe by a confused computer. In both films a sinister refugee scientist advises the U.S. to follow up the accidental attack with a total strike. In both films the U.S. President (Henry Fonda, a presidential candidate in The Best Man, was evidently elected before the release of Fail Safe) hops...
...nature that seemed all confidence and gallantry, and finds it in a pride so vast that it demanded others live according to Hemingway's own stern and complicated code (even when they could not know the rules), a pride so touchy that it could make the humdrum business of ordering a cup of coffee a mortal combat...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) hazards a fling with a sometime musician (Steve McQueen), and this tough-minded little comedy takes it from there, neatly improvising on a humdrum theme...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) hazards a fling with a sometime musician (Steve McQueen), and this tough-minded little comedy takes it from there, neatly improvising on a humdrum theme...
LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. A Macy's salesgirl (Natalie Wood) hazards a fling with a sometime musician (Steve McQueen), and this tough-minded little comedy takes it from there, neatly improvising on a humdrum theme...