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Fail Safe

It will have you sitting on the brink of eternity!

Rating 7.8 / 10Release October 7, 1964Runtime 112 min

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurring.

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