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''Fail Safe'' is a 1964 Cold war thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It portrays a fictional account of a Cold War nuclear crisis. The film features performances by veteran actors Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau and Frank Overton. Larry Hagman, Fritz Weaver, Dom DeLuise and Sorrell Booke appeared in early film roles. ''Fail Safe'' describes how Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States lead to an accidental thermonuclear first-strike. An error sends a group of US bombers (actual Convair B-58 Hustler aircraft) to bomb Moscow. In 2000 the novel was adapted again as a televised play, starring George Clooney, Richard Dreyfuss and Noah Wyle, and broadcast live in black-and-white on CBS. ==Plot== The film begins with VIPs visiting the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) at Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska. During the trip, an alert is initiated by USAF's early warning radar that an unidentified flying object is making an unauthorized intrusion into American airspace. Defense protocols dictate that the SAC must always keep several bomber groups airborne 24 hours a day in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States. Following the alert, bombers are ordered to proceed to predetermined aerial "fail-safe points" to await their final "go" orders before proceeding towards Soviet targets. Shortly after they reach those points, the alert is canceled. The intruder is identified as an off-course civilian airliner. However, a technical error sends an errant "go code" to one bomber group, ordering them to attack their predetermined target: Moscow. SAC headquarters begins trying to rescind the order. This fails because a new Soviet countermeasure has begun radio jamming communications between the bomber group and SAC. With his orders apparently confirmed, Colonel Jack Grady (Edward Binns), the U.S. bomber group's commander, commands the group to continue to their target. With pressure mounting, the President of the United States (Henry Fonda) and his advisers attempt to recall the group or shoot them down. Communications are begun with the Soviet chairman, whereupon mistakes on both sides (the American accidental launch of the mission and the Soviet jamming) are acknowledged. The jamming ceases, but the crew follows their SAC training and protocols and dismisses the counter-orders as a Soviet ruse. The U.S. President struggles to find a resolution that will stop the Soviet Union from launching a counter-attack; if he fails, an all-out nuclear holocaust will be unavoidable. The U.S. President offers to sacrifice an American target to appease the Soviets, and he orders an American bomber towards New York City. The President's advisers in the Pentagon discover that the First Lady is visiting New York City. The rogue bombers devastate Moscow. The President orders General Black (Dan O'Herlihy)– whose wife and children live in New York—to drop the same nuclear payload on that city. After releasing the bombs, Black, who is flying the bomber, commits suicide. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fail Safe (1964 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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