Just Because Wednesday, Movies at Home: ‘Fail Safe’

It’s Wednesday, so AHFW is featuring one of our favorite movies.  Why?  Just because. This week, we’ll set our movie time machine back to 1964, the year of Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove”.   Sidney Lumet’s “Fail Safe” has a curiously similar plot, but without the zany comic tones.  This exceedingly-serious, straight-forward cold war picture – starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau – does carries a “Twilight Zone” look and feel but with no paranormal phenomenons. Here, the grave spectacle is six American bombers inadvertently receive an order to drop nuclear bombs…