Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)

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.

Directed by: Robert Aldrich

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Roscoe Lee Browne, Charles Durning, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Jaeckel, William Marshall, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Richard Widmark, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Charles Aidman

Genres: Drama, Neo-noir, Thriller, War

Rating: 6.4/10

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