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1964: "Fail Safe" and "The Moon-Spinners"

1964: "Fail Safe" and "The Moon-Spinners"

Update: 2025-06-17

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What does a doomsday drama about nuclear annihilation have in common with a breezy adventure set on the Greek isles? Just the year they hit the big screen. We explore why Fail Safe feels eerily prophetic in the age of AI, and whether or not Eli Wallach should have been doing brownface so much (he shouldn't have). It's Sidney Lumet’s tense Cold War thriller Fail Safe, starring Henry Fonda and Walter Matthau, and Disney’s sun-drenched mystery The Moon-Spinners, directed by James Neilson and featuring Hayley Mills and Eli Wallach.

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Hosted by Brad Garoon & Jake Ziegler, with guest Jeff Richardson.

(0:32 ) Fail Safe(24:45 ) The Moon Spinners(36:12 ) The Best Movies of 1964

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1964: "Fail Safe" and "The Moon-Spinners"

1964: "Fail Safe" and "The Moon-Spinners"

Brad Garoon & Jake Ziegler