Twilight's Last Gleaming

6.386

146 minutes

2/9/1977

Overview

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.

Cast List

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
Burt Young
as Augie Garvas
Charles Aidman
as Bernstein
Leif Erickson
as Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director
Charles McGraw
as Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
Morgan Paull
as First Lt. Louis Cannellis
Simon Scott
as Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
William Smith
as Hoxey
William Hootkins
as Sgt. Fitzpatrick
Bill Walker
as Willard
David Baxt
as Sgt. Willard
Glenn Beck
as Lieutenant
John Ratzenberger
as Sgt. Kopecki
Shane Rimmer
as Col. Franklin
Don Fellows
as Gen. Stonesifer
Phil Brown
as Rev. Cartwright
Ed Bishop
as Maj. Fox
Gary Cockrell
as Capt. Jackson
David Healy
as Maj. Winters
Robert O'Neil
as Briefing Officer
Robert MacLeod
as State Trooper Chambers
Lionel Murton
as Col. Horn
Garrick Hagon
as Alfie/Driver