Twilight's Last Gleaming

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

We have invaded Silo 3. We are prepared to launch nine nuclear missiles. We demand ten million dollars, Air Force One... and you, Mr President.

A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.

Date of release
1977-02-09
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (85)
Runtime
2h 26m
Genres
Thriller
Director
Robert Aldrich

Casting

  • Burt Lancaster — Gen. Lawrence Dell
  • Roscoe Lee Browne — James Forrest
  • Charles Durning — President David T. Stevens
  • Joseph Cotten — Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
  • Melvyn Douglas — Zachariah Guthrie
  • Richard Jaeckel — Capt. Stanford Towne
  • William Marshall — William Klinger - Attorney General
  • Gerald S. O'Loughlin — Brig. Gen. O'Rourke
  • Richard Widmark — Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
  • Paul Winfield — Willis Powell
  • Burt Young — Augie Garvas
  • Charles Aidman — Bernstein

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