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.| Status: | Released (1977-02-09) |
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| Awards: | 2 nominations total |
| Screen: | Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch, Walter Wager |
| Productions: | Lorimar Productions, Bavaria Film, Geria Productions, Allied Artists Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | Français, English |
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- 13784: Burt Lancaster - Gen. Lawrence Dell
- 24368: Roscoe Lee Browne - James Forrest
- 1466: Charles Durning - President David T. Stevens
- 7664: Joseph Cotten - Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
- 19550: Melvyn Douglas - Zachariah Guthrie
- 58423: Richard Jaeckel - Capt. Stanford Towne
- 16028: William Marshall - William Klinger - Attorney General
Crews
- 18392: Robert Aldrich - Director - Directing
- 85408: Ronald M. Cohen - Screenplay - Writing
- 1621708: Edward Huebsch - Screenplay - Writing
- 1641795: Walter Wager - Novel - Writing
- 41411: Robert B. Hauser - Director of Photography - Camera
- 1710233: Merv Adelson - Producer - Production
- 1633183: Tom Dawson - Costume Design - Costume & Make-Up
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Reviews
John Chard
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Gentlemen, we are now a superpower. Twilight's Last Gleaming is directed by Robert Aldrich and collectively written by Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch and Walter Wager (novel "Viper Three"). It stars Burt Lancaster, Burt Young, Richard Widmark, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten, C ....
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40-odd years on, and this still has a certain resonance about it even now. Burt Lancaster in a disgraced US Air Force General who, along with two colleagues, escapes from jail and takes control of an active nuclear missile silo with 9 deadly missiles at his disposal. Richard Widmark, ....
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