Fail Safe - 1964

[TheVTCGuy]

I watched this movie for the 10th time this morning, anyone else seen it? What an incredible work of art. Everything from the directing, lighting, acting... Peter Fonda, Walther Matheou... The tension in the conversations, the severity of the situation (A nuclear attack on Russia). I've seen it, I know what happens, it still has me on the edge of my seat. Even the silent scenes where no one speaks are intense.


Man, they just don't make movies like that anymore

[MoBe]

I think I prefer " Dr. Strangelove " of the same period.

[Kingair]

Here is the complete list of movies made in 1964 . . .

Amazing good ones ;-)

HAGWe





Notable films released in 1964

U.S.A. unless stated
#
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, starring Tony Randall
The 7th Dawn, starring William Holden
633 Squadron, starring Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy - (U.K.)
A
Advance to the Rear, directed by George Marshall, starring Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, Melvyn Douglas
The Alive and the Dead (Zhivye i myortvye) - (U.S.S.R.)
The Americanization of Emily, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Garner, Julie Andrews, James Coburn, Melvyn Douglas
The Ape Woman (La donna scimmia), starring Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot - (Italy/France)
Assassination (Ansatu) - (Japan)
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma) - (Brazil)
Atentát - (Czechoslovakia)
Ayee Milan Ki Bela - (India)
B
Band of Outsiders (Bande à part), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
The Bargee, starring Harry H. Corbett and Eric Sykes - (U.K.)
The Beauty Jungle, starring Ian Hendry - (U.K.)
Becket, directed by Peter Glenville, starring Peter O'Toole and Richard Burton - (U.K./U.S.)
Bedtime Story, starring Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones
Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione), directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - (Italy)
Behold a Pale Horse, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
The Best Man, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Ann Sothern, Shelley Berman, Lee Tracy
Bikini Beach, starring Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Martha Hyer, Don Rickles
Black God, White Devil (Deus e o Diabo na terra do sol) - (Brazil)
Black Like Me, starring James Whitmore and Roscoe Lee Browne
Black Peter (Cerný Petr), directed by Miloš Forman - (Czechoslovakia)
Blood and Black Lace, directed by Mario Bava - (Italy)
The Brass Bottle, starring Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden
Bullet for a Badman, starring Audie Murphy. Darren McGavin
C
Carol for Another Christmas, starring Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland
The Carpetbaggers, starring George Peppard, Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Ashley, Martha Hyer, Bob Cummings, Alan Ladd
Carry On Cleo, starring Sid James and Amanda Barrie - (U.K.)
Carry On Spying, starring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)
The Chairman (Predsedatel) - (U.S.S.R.)
The Chalk Garden, starring Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills - (U.K.)
Cheyenne Autumn, directed by John Ford, starring Carroll Baker, Richard Widmark, Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart
Circus World, starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, Rita Hayworth
The Comedy Man, starring Kenneth More and Cecil Parker - (U.K.)
Crack in the World, starring Dana Andrews
Crooks in Cloisters, starring Ronald Fraser and Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)
D
Dead Ringer, starring Bette Davis
Dear Heart, directed by Delbert Mann, starring Geraldine Page, Glenn Ford, Angela Lansbury
The Devil-Ship Pirates, starring Christopher Lee, Andrew Keir
Diamonds of the Night (Démanty noci), directed by Jan Němec - (Czechoslovakia)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d'une femme de chambre), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Jeanne Moreau and Michel Piccoli - (France)
The Disorderly Orderly, starring Jerry Lewis
Dog Eat Dog (aka When Strangers Meet), starring Jayne Mansfield
Dogora (aka Uchū Daikaijū Dogora), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
Dosti (Friendship) - (India)
Dr. Crippen, starring Donald Pleasence - (U.K.)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott - (U.K.)
Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz) - (Turkey)
E
The Earth Dies Screaming, starring Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price- (U.K.)
East of Sudan, starring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Sims and Jenny Agutter - (U.K.)
Ensign Pulver, starring Robert Walker, Jr., Burl Ives and Walter Matthau
El extraño viaje (The Strange Voyage) - (Spain)
The Eyes of Annie Jones, starring Richard Conte and Francesca Annis - (U.K.)
F
Face of the Screaming Werewolf, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. - (Mexico/U.S.A.)
Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman
The Fall of the Roman Empire, starring Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, Christopher Plummer, James Mason
Fantômas, starring Jean Marais - (France)
Fate Is the Hunter, starring Glenn Ford, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette
Father Goose, starring Cary Grant
The Fifth Horseman is Fear (A Paty Jezdec je Strach), directed by Zbynek Brynych - (Czechoslovakia)
First Men in the Moon, starring Lionel Jeffries - (U.K.)
A Fistful of Dollars, directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood - (Italy)
The Flesh Eaters, starring Martin Kosleck
Flight from Ashiya, starring Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark
Flipper's New Adventure, starring Luke Halpin and Pamela Franklin
The Flower and the Angry Waves (Hana to dotō), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
For Those Who Think Young, starring Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Ellen Burstyn, Nancy Sinatra
Forest of the Hanged (Pădurea spânzuraţilor) - (Romania)
G
Gate of Flesh (Nikutai no mon), directed by Seijun Suzuki - (Japan)
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (The Policeman of Saint-Tropez) - (France)
Gertrude, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Denmark)
Get Yourself a College Girl, starring Mary Ann Mobley and Nancy Sinatra
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (San Daikaijū: Chikyū Saidai no Kessen) - (Japan)
Girl with Green Eyes, starring Peter Finch and Rita Tushingham - (U.K.)
A Global Affair, starring Bob Hope
Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery (as James Bond), with Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton, Gert Frobe - (U.K.)
Goodbye Charlie, starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Pat Boone
Good Neighbor Sam, starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider
The Gorgon, starring Peter Cushing,Barbara Sheeley,Christopher Lee- (U.K.)

The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Il Vangelo secondo Matteo), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
Greed in the Sun (Cent mille dollars au soleil), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
The Guns (Os Fuzis) - (Brazil/Argentina)
Guns at Batasi, starring Richard Attenborough and Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)
H
Hamlet (aka Richard Burton's Hamlet)
Hamlet - (U.S.S.R.)
Haqeeqat (Reality) - (India)
A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, starring The Beatles - (U.K.)
Hey There It's Yogi Bear
Hide and Seek, starring Ian Carmichael and Curd Jürgens - (U.K.)
Hot Enough for June, starring Dirk Bogarde andSylvia Koscina - (U.K.)
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
I
I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba) - (Cuba/U.S.S.R.)
I'd Rather Be Rich, starring Sandra Dee, Robert Goulet and Andy Williams
The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts
Intentions of Murder (Akai satsui), directed by Shohei Imamura - (Japan)
Invitation to a Gunfighter, starring Yul Brynner, George Segal and Janice Rule
J K
The Killers, remake of 1946 film, directed by Don Seigel, starring Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes and, in his final film, Ronald Reagan
King and Country, directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and Tom Courtenay - (U.K.)
Kiss Me Quick!, starring Althea Currier
Kiss Me, Stupid, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Dean Martin and Kim Novak
Kisses for My President, starring Polly Bergen and Fred MacMurray
Kissin' Cousins, starring Elvis Presley
Kitten with a Whip, starring Ann-Margret and John Forsythe
Kwaidan, directed by Masaki Kobayashi - (Japan)
L
Lady General Hua Mulan (aka Hua Mu Lan) - (Hong Kong)
The Last Man on Earth (L'ultimo uomo della Terra), starring Vincent Price - (U.S.A./Italy)
The Last Steps (Les pas perdus), starring Michèle Morgan and Jean-Louis Trintignant - (France)
Leader, starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala - (India)
The Leather Boys, directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Rita Tushingham - (U.K.)
Lemonade Joe (Limonádový Joe aneb Koňská opera) - (Czechoslovakia)
Lilith, directed by Robert Rossen, starring Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg
The Lonely Wife (Charulata), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)
Looking for Love, starring Connie Francis
The Luck of Ginger Coffey, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Robert Shaw
M
Madu Tiga (Three Wives), starring P. Ramlee - (Malaysia)
Man's Favourite Sport, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Rock Hudson and Paula Prentiss
Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery
Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'italiana), directed by Vittorio De Sica, starring Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni - (Italy)
A Married Woman (Une femme mariée), directed by Jean-Luc Godard - (France)
Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke -- winner of 5 Academy Awards
The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher - (U.K.)
Men and Women (Noite Vazia) - (Brazil)
The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk
The Moon-Spinners, starring Hayley Mills
Mothra vs. Godzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
Murder Ahoy!, starring Margaret Rutherford and Lionel Jeffries
Murder Most Foul, starring Margaret Rutherford and Ron Moody
My Fair Lady, directed by George Cukor, starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison - winner of 8 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and BAFTA for best film
My Friend Lefterakis (O filos mou o Lefterakis) - (Greece)
N
The Naked Kiss, directed by Samuel Fuller, starring Constance Towers
The New Interns, starring Dean Jones, Michael Callan, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Eden
The Night of the Iguana, directed by John Huston, starring Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Nobody Waved Good-bye - (Canada)
Nothing But a Man, starring Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Yaphet Kotto
Nothing But the Best, starring Alan Bates, Millicent Martin - (U.K.)
O
Of Human Bondage, starring Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Siobhan McKenna - (U.K.)
One Potato, Two Potato, starring Barbara Barrie
Onibaba (Demon Woman), directed by Kaneto Shindō - (Japan)
The Outrage, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
P
Pajama Party, starring Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Harvey Lembeck
Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) - (Japan)
Panic Button, starring Jayne Mansfield and Maurice Chevalier
Paris When It Sizzles, starring William Holden and Audrey Hepburn with cameos by Tony Curtis and Marlene Dietrich
The Patsy, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Peter Lorre
The Pawnbroker, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Rod Steiger
The Pleasure Seekers, starring Pamela Tiffin, Carol Lynley, Ann-Margret
The Pumpkin Eater, starring Anne Bancroft and Peter Finch - (U.K.)
Q
Quick, Before It Melts, starring George Maharis, Robert Morse, and Anjanette Comer
R
Rattle of a Simple Man directed by Muriel Box, starring Diane Cilento and Harry H. Corbett - (U.K.)
The Ravishing Idiot (Une ravissante idiote), starring Brigitte Bardot and Anthony Perkins - (France)
Red Desert (Il deserto rosso), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris - (Italy)
Ring of Spies, starring Bernard Lee - (U.K.)
Rio Conchos, starring Stuart Whitman, Tony Franciosa, Richard Boone, Wende Wagner
Robin and the 7 Hoods, starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bing Crosby, Barbara Rush, Peter Falk
Robinson Crusoe on Mars, directed by Byron Haskin
Roustabout, starring Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - (TV film)
S
Sallah Shabati, starring Chaim Topol - (Israel)
Sangam, starring Vyjayanthimala, Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar - (India)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon, starring Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough - (U.K.)
The Secret Invasion, starring Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney
Seduced and Abandoned (Sedotta e abbandonata), starring Stefania Sandrelli - (Italy)
Send Me No Flowers, starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson
Seven Days in May, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner
Seven Up! - documentary - (U.K.)
Sex and the Single Girl, starring Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Tini zabutykh predkiv) - (U.S.S.R.)
Shehar Aur Sapna ((The City and the Dream) - (India)
A Shot in the Dark, starring Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer
The Soft Skin (La Peau Douce), directed by François Truffaut, starring Françoise Dorléac - (France)
Strait-Jacket, starring Joan Crawford and Diane Baker
T
That Man from Rio (L'Homme de Rio), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Françoise Dorléac - (France)
The Thin Red Line, starring Keir Dullea and Jack Warden
The Three Lives of Thomasina, starring Patrick McGoohan, Susan Hampshire, Karen Dotrice, Matthew Garber - (U.K./U.S.A.)
The Third Secret, starring Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento - (U.K.)
La Tía Tula (Aunt Tula) - (Spain)
Time of Indifference (Gli indifferenti), starring Claudia Cardinale, Rod Steiger, Shelley Winters - (Italy)
The Time Travelers, starring Preston Foster and Merry Anders
The Tomb of Ligeia, directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd
Topkapi, starring Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
The Train, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield - (U.S./France/Italy)
Two Stage Sisters (Wŭtái Jiěmèi) - (China)
U
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg), directed by Jacques Demy, starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo - winner of Palme d'Or - (France)
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, starring Debbie Reynolds
V
The Visit, directed by Bernhard Wicki - (West Germany/U.S./France/Italy)
Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret
W
Weekend at Dunkirk (Week-end à Zuydcoote), directed by Henri Verneuil - (Italy/France)
Welcome, or No Trespassing (Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchyon), starring Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev - (U.S.S.R.)
What a Way to Go!, starring Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dick Van Dyke
Where Love Has Gone, starring Bette Davis, Susan Hayward
Woh Kaun Thi? (Who Was She?) - (India)
Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) - (Japan)
Woman of Straw, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery - (U.K.)
Wonderful Life, starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows (US title: Swingers' Paradise[7]) - (U.K.)
The World of Henry Orient, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Peter Sellers, Paula Prentiss, Angela Lansbury, Tom Bosley
Y
The Yellow Rolls-Royce, starring Ingrid Bergman, Alain Delon, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif - (U.K.)
Youngblood Hawke, starring James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Eva Gabor, Mary Astor
Your Cheatin' Heart, a biopic of Hank Williams, starring George Hamilton
Z
Zhavoronok - (U.S.S.R.)
Zindagi, starring Vyjayanthimala, Rajendra Kumar, Raaj Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor -(India)
Zorba the Greek, directed by Michael Cacoyannis, starring Anthony Quinn and Alan Bates - (Greece/U.K.)
Zulu, directed by Cy Endfield, starring Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins - (U.K.)

[Boothroyd]

I like FailSafe also...it had a gritty reality to describing an unreal situation. Period piece now, but a great movie at the time.

[Jocke]

Originally Posted by TheVTCGuy

I watched this movie for the 10th time this morning, anyone else seen it? What an incredible work of art. Everything from the directing, lighting, acting... Peter Fonda, Walther Matheou... The tension in the conversations, the severity of the situation (A nuclear attack on Russia). I've seen it, I know what happens, it still has me on the edge of my seat. Even the silent scenes where no one speaks are intense.


Man, they just don't make movies like that anymore

When I see the title Fail Safe I was thinking of.........................never mind.

[Chipmunk]

Originally Posted by Jocke

When I see the title Fail Safe I was thinking of.........................never mind.

Me too.

[capote]

TheVTCguy: I agree! Lumet is one of the great directors of American cinema. This is sort of a companion piece to Dr. Stangelove. In some cases I'm an either/or kind of guy, but never when it comes to film. They are both directed by masters, although I have to give the edge to Dr. Stranglove, with the help of Ken Adams, the production designer of Strangelove (and some Bond-movies). The main difference is that Fail-Safe is a feasable scenario while Stragelove is as absurd as the notion of MAD (mutual assurred destruction) that comes with the territory of making nuclear weapons.

[Brenngun]

Fail Safe is a great movie. If you like Lumet and Fonda try 12 Angry Men. Another classic with an even more interesting cast.

[Boothroyd]

Originally Posted by Brenngun

Fail Safe is a great movie. If you like Lumet and Fonda try 12 Angry Men. Another classic with an even more interesting cast.

Great catch there.....12 Angry Men is a true classic!

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Brenngun

Fail Safe is a great movie. If you like Lumet and Fonda try 12 Angry Men. Another classic with an even more interesting cast.

You're absolutely right! Another fantastic movie

[subtona]

havent seen fail safe but ive liked everything i have seen walter mathau in!

thanks paul, look forward to checking itout.

ps dr strangelove is one of my favorites