Movie
Twilight's Last Gleaming
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1977-02-09
- Runtime
- 146 min
- Genres
- Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Bavaria Film, Geria Productions, Allied Artists Pictures, Lorimar Motion Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
Crew
- Robert Aldrich - Director
- Ronald M. Cohen - Screenplay
- Edward Huebsch - Screenplay
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