Movie
Fail Safe
Overview
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Details
- Release date
- 2000-04-09
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Warner Bros. Television, Maysville Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Walter Cronkite as Self - Host
- Richard Dreyfuss as President
- Noah Wyle as Buck
- Brian Dennehy as Gen. Bogan
- Sam Elliott as Congressman Raskob
- James Cromwell as Gordon Knapp
- John Diehl as Col. Cascio
- Hank Azaria as Prof. Groeteschele
- Norman Lloyd as Defense Secretary Swenson
- Bill Smitrovich as Gen. Stark
- Don Cheadle as Lt. Jimmy Pierce
- George Clooney as Col. Jack Grady
Crew
- Stephen Frears - Director
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