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packmule	Oct 17 2006, 04:15 PM
Site founder - Searching for Cropsy Posts: 32,861 Group: Administrator(staff) Member #1 Joined: January 29, 2006 Favorite giant monster film: Gojira(1954) Favorite horror film: House Of Wax(1953) Favorite sci-fi film: 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968)	KaijuFanatic Oct 17 2006, 11:37 AM Wasn't, Dr Strangelove a bigger boxoffice success than, Fail Safe? I thought I recenly read that and was a bit surprised by that info. I'm not sure how either of these 1964 films did at the box office. The narrator at TCM(not Robert Osborne but the younger guy named "Ben") stated that "Dr. Strangelove" was a big hit with audiences, and that there was some ridicule heaped on "Failsafe" because it came out so soon afterwards(about two months after "Dr. Strangelove"). That "ridicule" came from film critics and, according to "Ben", many people who went to see "Failsafe" in theaters. If memory serves me correct the producers of Dr. Strangelove sued those who made Failsafe because of how closely the latter paralled the former in plot. Some kind of copyright infringement issue. I know there was a lawsuit filed. I do not know the outcome of that lawsuit. eyebrow
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