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Film / 1977
Twilight's Last Gleaming
Directed by
Robert Aldrich
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Burt LancasterGen. Lawrence Dell
Roscoe Lee BrowneJames Forrest
Charles DurningPresident David T. Stevens
Joseph CottenArthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Melvyn DouglasZachariah Guthrie
Richard JaeckelCapt. Stanford Towne
William MarshallWilliam Klinger - Attorney General
Gerald S. O'LoughlinBrig. Gen. O'Rourke
Richard WidmarkGen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
Paul WinfieldWillis Powell
Burt YoungAugie Garvas
Charles AidmanBernstein
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Leif EricksonRalph Whittaker - CIA Director
Charles McGrawAir Force Gen. Peter Crane
Morgan PaullFirst Lt. Louis Cannellis
Simon ScottGen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
William SmithHoxey
William HootkinsSgt. Fitzpatrick
Bill WalkerWillard
David BaxtSgt. Willard
Glenn BeckLieutenant
Bob ShermanMaj. LeBeau
John RatzenbergerSgt. Kopecki
Shane RimmerCol. Franklin
Don FellowsGen. Stonesifer
Phil BrownRev. Cartwright
Ed BishopMaj. Fox
Gary CockrellCapt. Jackson
David HealyMaj. Winters
Robert O'NeilBriefing Officer
Robert MacLeodState Trooper Chambers
Lionel MurtonCol. Horn
Garrick HagonAlfie/Driver
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