Fail Safe - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "Fail Safe"
Fail Safe (1964)
Timing:
1:52 (112 min)
7.821/10
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Film crew
Director
Producer
Max E. Youngstein
Producer
Charles H. Maguire
Producer
Executive Producer
Editor
Ralph Rosenblum
Editor
Art Direction
Costume Design
Set Decoration
J.C. Delaney
Set Decoration
Director of Photography
Gerald Hirschfeld
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Albert Taffet
Camera Operator
Makeup Department Head
Bill Herman
Makeup Department Head
Sound Mixer
William Swift
Sound Mixer
Screenplay
Novel
Eugene Burdick
Novel
Harvey Wheeler
Novel
Assistant Director
Harry Falk
Assistant Director
Sound Editor
Jack Fitzstephens
Sound Editor
Script
Eugene Burdick
Script
What's left behind the scenes
- Both this film by Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) and Stanley Kubrick's (1928-1999) "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1963) were ready at Columbia Pictures, but Kubrick insisted that his film be released first, and it premiered in January 1964. When "Fail-Safe" was finally released, the reviews were excellent, but audiences found it funny precisely because they had already seen Kubrick's film. Even Henry Fonda (1905-1982) later said that he would not have worked with Lumet if he had seen Kubrick's film first.
- The images on the supposedly computer screen on the wall (which reflected a world map, airplanes, and explosions) were actually painted and, accordingly, animated.
- The enormous metallic telephone used by the president to speak with the Soviet premier was actually a telephone – the kind used in mining companies during blasting operations.
- The supposedly satellite view, which zooms in on the image for closer examination, is in fact a recording from a camera installed on a German V2 rocket, subsequently played in reverse.
- In the conference room where the president speaks with the Soviet premier, a clock showing 11 o'clock hangs on the wall. These are the so-called “Doomsday Clock,” counting down the time remaining until nuclear apocalypse, and began counting down in 1947. Depending on the increase or decrease in international tension between the United States and the USSR, along with their satellite countries, the clock's hands move forward or backward.
- When filming Colonel Grady's cockpit, played by Ed Binns (1916-1990), they did not use sets, but a flight simulator rented for the filming.
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