Twilight's Last Gleaming

Twilight's Last Gleaming

146 mins | Thriller | Feb. 9, 1977

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.

Twilight's Last Gleaming

146 mins | Thriller | Feb. 9, 1977

Twilight's Last Gleaming
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Lorimar Productions, Bavaria Film, Allied Artists Pictures, Geria Productions
Original title Twilight's Last Gleaming
Directors Alvin Greenman, Robert Aldrich
Writers Walter Wager, Edward Huebsch, Ronald M. Cohen

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

John Ratzenberger

as Sgt. Kopecki