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...been made into a sensational scareshow that for the first hour or so will seem credible to civilians and keep their teeth chattering like Geiger counters. But as a work of art and an effort of polemic, Fail Safe labors under a special difficulty: Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's recent and remarkable black comedy of nuclear nightmare, has effectively stolen its atomic thunder...
...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...
...STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Stanley Kubrick's black comedy about nuclear war features fine performances by Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and the ubiquitous Peter Sellers...
...STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and Peter Sellers detonate the bitter laughs in Stanley Kubrick's comedy of terrors...
Sterling Hayden, George C. Scott and Peter Sellers detonate the bitter laughs in Stanley Kubrick's nightmare comedy about inadvertent nuclear...