Fail Safe—Five for Fonda Film Series

Name: Fail Safe—Five for Fonda Film Series
Start: 2025-10-23T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT

Schedule

Thu, 23 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Humanities Quadrangle, Room L02, 320 York Street, New Haven, CT | New Haven, CT

FAIL SAFE (Sidney Lumet, 1964, 35mm, 112 mins)
Henry Fonda is an American president in crisis when a computer glitch sends nuclear bombers to attack Moscow. Released the same year as DR. STRANGELOVE, this other black-and-white Cold War classic is a taut, tense, psychologically-rich political drama that warns against our over-reliance on fallible and destructive technology. “An impressive and disturbing brink-of-doom thriller” (Kim Newman) that “packs a melodramatic wallop” (Bosley Crowther). 35mm print from Sony Pictures.
Full schedule: bit.ly/yalefilmarchivescreenings
The “Five for Fonda” series features a selection of films starring or about actor Henry Fonda.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.