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If you want to pay your respects to our old movie friend Sidney Lumet - the director whose passing has thinned the ranks of notable filmmakers who began in the '50s to practically zilch - we suggest you discover, or revisit, or at least reconsider his shining hour.
Not "12 Angry Men," or "Dog Day Afternoon," or "Serpico," or "Network," or "The Verdict," or "Fail-Safe," or "The Pawnbroker," or "Long Day's Journey Into Night" - worthy titles, all; worth revisiting, all.See the full content of this document
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The Good One That Got Away, Still
In fact, we revisited 1964's "Fail-Safe" a couple nights ago and found we now prefer its dour realism to Kubrick's wacky Mad- magazine version of the same story ...
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