FAIL-SAFE (vhs) B&W, LP Mode, Henry Fonda and similar items

Pre-viewed for quality and played great on my Sanyo deck despite the LP mode in glorious Black White. Be sure your vcr supports this tape speed as a tweak of the tracking may be neccesary. Box cover has a little normal shelf wear around the corners and edges. Out Of Print (OOP) in all formats and no longer being manufactured. FAIL-SAFE begins with General Black (Dan O'Herlihy) having a nightmare about a bullfight, then plays out almost in real time as a crisis develops. A routine UFO turns out not to be an incoming Soviet missile, but an off-course commercial flight. However, a computer error sends a flight of Strategic Air Command bombers beyond their fail-safe points to attack Russia and a new Soviet radio-jamming device prevents the orders from being countermanded. At a SAC base in Omaha and at the Pentagon, positions are taken and argued: neurotic Colonel Cascio (Fritz Weaver) and Herman Kahn-like civilian theorist Groeteschele (Walter Matthau) press for a decisive follow-up to this accidental first-strike, while Black and General Bogan (Frank Overton) insist on de-escalation at any price including the lives of American servicemen. The President (Henry Fonda), accompanied by Russian translator Buck (Larry Hagman), sits in a bunker and talks with the unseen Soviet premier on the hot line. All attempts at recall or shooting- down fail, even when contact is re-established with Grady (Edward Binns), pilot of the surviving bomber (even the President and Grady's wife can't convince him to question his standing orders), and Moscow is destroyed, the devastation conveyed by the whine of a melting telephone as the US Ambassador is vaporized. The President orders Black to destroy New York as a sacrifice to avert all-out retaliation, and an awful lesson is learned.