Twilight's Last Gleaming
February 9, 1977
146 minutes
6.4
Thriller

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.

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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)
Bill Walker
(Willard)
David Baxt
(Sgt. Willard)
Glenn Beck
(Lieutenant)
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)