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Fail-Safe is a 1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet, based on the 1962 novel Fail-Safe written by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. It portrays a fictional account of a Cold War nuclear crisis. The film features an all-star cast, including impressive performances by veteran actors Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond), Dan O'Herlihy (Adventures of Robinson Crusoe), Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple, The Fortune Cookie), and Frank Overton (TV series Twelve O'Clock High). Early film appearances include Fritz Weaver, Dom DeLuise, and Larry Hagman as the interpreter.
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.
The genesis of the movie arises out of the Cold War tensions existing between the United States and the Soviet Union during the early 1960s. The film is a dramatic fictionalized account of a series of coincidental events leading up to an accidental thermonuclear first-strike attack by a group of United States “Vindicator” bombers (Convair B-58 Hustler aircraft) against the capital of Russia, Moscow.
I watched you look through the few
Just like you told me you'd do
And now you live for the star that you reflected to use
I never noticed the time, but now it's start to unwind
The few who know me for nothing
well why did you lie?
As you blacken my name
As you poison my vein
Heaven's never gonna cry
As you blacken my name
As you poison my vein
I watched you look for the days that I don't want you to see
I don't want you to see
I've only failed in the ways that I don't want to believe
And now the day has begun
And it will burn like the sun
Cuz I can see underneath your sacred hands are for none
I... I...
As you blacken my name
As you poison my vein
Heaven's never gonna cry
As you blacken my name
As you poison my vein
It feels like ... nowhere
It feels like ... nothing
I never wanted to go
But now it's harder to close
Are we hearing our bodies or are we hearing our souls?
I watched you dead in a box
But since I'd rather you rot
There's nothing left to discuss
So why we lie on the turf
As you blacken my name
As you poison my vein
Heaven's never gonna cry
As you blacken my name