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Film: Fail Safe

Thu Oct 23, 2025 7:00 p.m.—9:00 p.m.

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Humanities Quadrangle, L02
320 York Street New Haven, CT 06511
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Yale Film Archive: Five for Fonda Film Series

 

Fail Safe (Sidney Lumet, 1964, 35mm, 112 mins)

Henry Fonda is an American president in crisis when a computer glitch sends nuclear bombers to attack Moscow. Released the same year as Dr. Strangelove, this other black-and-white Cold War classic is a taut, tense, psychologically-rich political drama that warns against our over-reliance on fallible and destructive technology. “An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller” (Kim Newman) that “packs a melodramatic wallop” (Bosley Crowther). 35mm print from Sony Pictures.

 

Yale Film Archive's Five for Fonda series features a selection of films starring or about actor Henry Fonda.

 

Yale Film Archive screenings are always free and open to the public. See the full film schedule here.