Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Overview · Where to watch · Cast & crew · Reviews
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.
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.
- Released: 1977-02-09
- Genres: Thriller
- Runtime: 2h 26m
- Status: Released
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10 from 82 votes
Directed by Robert Aldrich.
Top 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
Where to watch Twilight's Last Gleaming
- United States: stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads; rent on Amazon Video; buy on Amazon Video
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