Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 thriller movie directed by Robert Aldrich, with a running time of 2h 26m. It stars Burt Lancaster, Roscoe Lee Browne and Charles Durning.
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 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