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.

Movie · Thriller · 2h 26m · Rated 6.5/10 on TMDB · Released February 9, 1977

Overview

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.

Directed by Robert Aldrich

Cast

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

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