Fail-Safe, the 1964 movie with Henry Fonda, Walter Mattheu, and yes, Dom DeLuise, is full of secret places. In fact, with the exception of the very beginning (when Walter Mattheu, tough guy that he is, slaps a woman and says, “You’re not my kind”), most everything takes place in the President’s bunker, the War Room, or an enclosed boardroom.
President’s Bunker
Henry Fonda closes the door, and that’s it. Now it’s just Fonda and a young Tom Hanks-looking Larry Hagman; a desk; telephone set; pitcher of water with glasses; and a big, giant air conditioning vent.
War Room
Classic war room with the “big board.” Unfortunately, the parody Dr. Strangelove has a much cooler war room.
Conference Room
A V-shaped conference table and a podium for war-monger Walter Mattheu to pontificate. Unlike Fonda and Hagman in the bunker, these generals and civilian Mattheu have plenty of coffee to tide them through the beginning of World War III.
