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Twilight's Last Gleaming

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.

1977 · R · 2h 26m

Directed by Robert Aldrich

6.5

TMDB audience score
86 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • 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

  • Leif Erickson
    Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director

  • Charles McGraw
    Air Force Gen. Peter Crane

  • Morgan Paull
    First Lt. Louis Cannellis

  • Simon Scott
    Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

  • William Smith
    Hoxey

  • William Hootkins
    Sgt. Fitzpatrick