Frieda Altman

La défaillance d'un minuscule transistor provoque l'alarme au Strategic Air Command où sont surveillés les mouvements de tous les avions du monde. Cette défaillance fait croire à l'existence d'un engin non identifié. Une escadrille de bombardiers atomiques est envoyée en direction de Moscou.

Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the pervasiveness of nuclear paranoia in films of the sixties.

Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his King and takes the throne for himself.