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Fail Safe (Episode 46) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
It was an arms race at the 1964 box office between Fail Safe and the similarly themed Dr. Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick pressured Columbia Pictures, the studio that owned both films, to release his film first. As a result, Fail Safe, while critically lauded, suffered under the indifference of a paying audience who thought they had already seen the definitive Cold War movie with Strangelove. Little did they know how very different the two films were. The sweaty, sobering, scary Fail Safe stars Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton and Larry Hagman.
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