Fail Safe (1964): Lumet’s Cautionary Tale, Starring Henry Fonda as U.S. President, Dan O’Herlihy Walter Matthau Frank Overton, Fritz Weaver, Edward Binns, Larry Hagman

Released by the same studio (Columbia) just seven months after the Kubrick farce, “Fail Safe” suffered at the box-office by following “Dr. Strangelove,” a wild farce based on similar premise.