Opening title for Fail Safe  (1964). Fail Safe was adapted from a novel of the same name by two Professors Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler. Based on Wheeler’s short story “Abraham ‘59”, the story was published in a serialized form for the Saturday Evening Post and as a novel during the Cuban missile crisis.  Soon after, pre-production began for a film adaptation and Sidney Lumet was attached to the project by producer Max E. Youngstein. The film was independently produced t