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Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

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.

  • Feb 9, 1977
  • 2h 26m
  • R

6.5/10

TMDB user score
86 votes on TMDB

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About This Movie

Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich. Its leading cast includes Burt Lancaster, Roscoe Lee Browne and Charles Durning. It runs for 2 hours 26 minutes.

Synopsis

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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Time needed
2 hours 26 minutes
Age rating (US)
R
Language
English
Audience signal
6.5/10 from 86 TMDB votes

Official Trailer

TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (New Masters of Cinema HD Trailer) · plays from YouTube

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Cast

  • 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

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