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Title: I'll trade you a NYC for a Moscow...
Review: Released in 1964, this is the best Cold War movie ever made. The acting is superb on all fronts, and there is no wasted film here. The US military establishment did NOT want this movie made, and insisted on a silly "disclaimer" at the end of the film.I would single out Walter Matthau's performance as the real gem here. His "winnable limited nuclear war" speech to the generals is truly insane and brilliant, all at the same time. Fonda and Hagman do well as two men trying to avert apocalypse, and Fritz Weaver's debut is a sad and disturbing examination of a wounded soul. Frank Overton is great as General Bogan, and Dan O'Herlihey is quite brilliant as a general with impending doom written all over his dreams.No music, no soundtrack, no special effects, stark black-and-white camera work...all these serve to intensify the gloom. Actually, I think Edgar Allan Poe would have loved this movie.Required viewing.
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