Fail-Safe (1964)

One of the deadly serious films that came out of the Cold War.  Looking over the cast is somewhat astonishing: Larry Hagman, Walter Matthau, my distant cousin Henry Fonda, and introducing Fritz Weaver.  Oh yes, the big surprise: Dom Deluise.  For you younguns', he was a comic actor long ago.

Larry Hagman plays Buck, the Russian translator for the President.  My, he was young. 

I had forgotten how powerful the last few minutes are.