Twilight's Last Gleaming
Twilight's Last Gleaming

Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

PG-132/9/1977Thriller2h 26m
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"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."

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.

Robert Aldrich

Director

Merv Adelson

Producer

Jerry Goldsmith

Composer

Top Billed Cast

Burt Lancaster

Burt Lancaster

Gen. Lawrence Dell

Roscoe Lee Browne

Roscoe Lee Browne

James Forrest

Charles Durning

Charles Durning

President David T. Stevens

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

Melvyn Douglas

Melvyn Douglas

Zachariah Guthrie

Richard Jaeckel

Richard Jaeckel

Capt. Stanford Towne

William Marshall

William Marshall

William Klinger - Attorney General

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Brig. Gen. O'Rourke

Richard Widmark

Richard Widmark

Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA

Paul Winfield

Paul Winfield

Willis Powell