490 Fail-Safe (1964)
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This article is from the Movie Trivia, by Murray Chapman muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
490 Fail-Safe (1964)
- The film shows many US Air Force bombers, but they are all actually all shots
of the same plane, taken from a stock piece of film after the Department of
Defense declined to cooperate with the filmmakers.
- "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963)" (qv)
has a remarkably similar premise, and was being made by
'Stanley Kubrick' (qv) at the same time. Kubrick threatened legal action,
claiming plagiarism. The issue was settled when Columbia Pictures agreed to
push Kubrick's film at the expense of "Fail-Safe (1964)" (qv), which
subsequently bombed at the box office.
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