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Fail Safe (1964): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

Fail Safe is a 1964 thriller, drama film directed by Sidney Lumet. It scores 8.0 on IMDb, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, 75 on Metacritic, 7.8 on TMDB. Audiences and critics largely agree: IMDb users and Metacritic critics are within 5 points of each other once scaled to 100. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 5 of 87 films from 1964 in our catalog and number 75 of 1,701 thriller films.

Billed cast: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman, Frank Overton, Edward Binns.

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