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.
146 min
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.
- Release date
- February 9, 1977
- Country of origin
- United States, Germany
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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
- Leif Erickson as Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director
- Charles McGraw as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
- Morgan Paull as First Lt. Louis Cannellis
- Simon Scott as Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- William Smith as Hoxey
- William Hootkins as Sgt. Fitzpatrick
- Bill Walker as Willard
- David Baxt as Sgt. Willard
- Glenn Beck as Lieutenant
- Bob Sherman as Maj. LeBeau
- John Ratzenberger as Sgt. Kopecki
- Shane Rimmer as Col. Franklin
- Don Fellows as Gen. Stonesifer
- Phil Brown as Rev. Cartwright
- Ed Bishop as Maj. Fox
- Gary Cockrell as Capt. Jackson
- David Healy as Maj. Winters
- Robert O'Neil as Briefing Officer
Crew
- Robert Aldrich · Director
- Ronald M. Cohen · Writer
- Edward Huebsch · Writer
- Walter Wager · Writer
- Merv Adelson · Producer
- Jerry Goldsmith · Composer
- Robert B. Hauser · Cinematographer
- Michael Luciano · Editor
- William Martin · Editor
- Maury Winetrobe · Editor
- Jack Baur · Casting director
- Rolf Zehetbauer · Production designer