Hutchinson
Public Library 901 N. Main Hutchinson, KS 67501

Starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, and Larry Hagman

Directed by Sidney Lumet

Black and white; Not Rated; 112 minutes; 1964

A technical malfunction in the Pentagon's strategic control system causes an erroneous order to be sent to a B-58 squadron on a routine training mission instructing the bombers to fly beyond their fail safe distance. At this point the flight crew are trained to cease communications and prepeare to fulfill their objective by bombing Moscow. As the planes near their target, the crisis deepens and together the Americans and Soviets decide on a final, desperate solution.