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When Fail Safe opened in October 1964, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box-office performance was poor. Its failure rested with the similarity between it and the nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove, which had appeared in theaters first, in January 1964.
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events, including three highly successful musical films, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Top-grossing films (U.S.) [ edit ]
Kubrick's Dr Strangelove is far more realistic in that the primary and secondary targets are pre-assigned and all the bombers need is the go-code. Fail Safe shows an obsolete procedure, high-level penetration by supersonic B-58s, which was no longer possible in 1964 due to Soviet missile defences.
Although Fail Safe was to be a realistic thriller, Kubrick feared that its plot resemblance would damage his film's box office potential, especially if Fail Safe were released first. Indeed, the novel Fail-Safe (on which the film is based) is so similar to Red Alert that Kubrick and Peter George sued on charges of copyright infringement. [2]
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