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Twilight's Last Gleaming

Name: Twilight's Last Gleaming
Genre: Thriller
Released: 1977-02-09
Duration: 146 min
Rating: 6.45

★ 6,5 /10 (80 Votes)

1977 EN 146 min

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.

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Release date

09/02/1977

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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.

Genres

Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

146 min

Burt Lancaster

Gen. Lawrence Dell

Roscoe Lee Browne

James Forrest

Charles Durning

President David T. Stevens

Joseph Cotten

Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State

Melvyn Douglas

Zachariah Guthrie

Richard Jaeckel

Capt. Stanford Towne

William Marshall

William Klinger - Attorney General

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Brig. Gen. O'Rourke

Richard Widmark

Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA

Paul Winfield

Willis Powell

Burt Young

Augie Garvas

Charles Aidman

Bernstein

Leif Erickson

Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director

Charles McGraw

Air Force Gen. Peter Crane

Morgan Paull

First Lt. Louis Cannellis

Simon Scott

Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

William Smith

Hoxey

William Hootkins

Sgt. Fitzpatrick

Bill Walker

Willard

David Baxt

Sgt. Willard

Glenn Beck

Lieutenant

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Bob Sherman

Maj. LeBeau

John Ratzenberger

Sgt. Kopecki

Shane Rimmer

Col. Franklin

Don Fellows

Gen. Stonesifer

Phil Brown

Rev. Cartwright

Ed Bishop

Maj. Fox

Gary Cockrell

Capt. Jackson

David Healy

Maj. Winters

Robert O'Neil

Briefing Officer

Robert MacLeod

State Trooper Chambers

Lionel Murton

Col. Horn

Garrick Hagon

Alfie/Driver

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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, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Jaeckel and William Marshall. Music is by Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Robert B. Hauser. A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell (Lancaster), escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the Pr…

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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, his former commanding officer is now on the opposing side as they play a cleverly constructed, well paced and genuinely quite menacing game of cat and mouse. The plot thickens significantly when the President (Charles Durning) learns that aside from the usual money and aeroplane demands from their antagonists, the…

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