Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · Movie · R · 146 min · ★ 6.4
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.
Based on Viper Three
Also known as Nuclear Countdown
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Details
- Years
- 1977
- Release date
- 1977-02-09
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 146 min
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 (78 votes)
- Box office
- $4,500,000
- Budget
- $6,200,000
Themes
- based on novel or book
- general
- montana
- nuclear missile
- nuclear threat
- military
- silo
Cast & crew
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
Directed by Robert Aldrich