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Also available on DTO/VOD – http://amzn.to/2ggx60WHigh among idiosyncratic auteur Robert Aldrich’s most powerful and intense dramas, Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a thunderous political thriller and race-against-time doomsday classic.Burt Lancaster stars as the Air Force general Lawrence Dell who seizes control of a stockpile of nuclear missiles to force the US President (Charles Durning) to tell the truth about the Vietnam war. As negotiations get ever more desperate, General MacKenzie ( Richard Widmark) leads an elite fighting team into the complex to disable Dell and his team directly.One of the most overlooked nail biters of the 1970s, Twilight’s Last Gleaming is presented here on UK home video for the first time in a new Dual-Format edition.
Original Release
02/09/1977
US Release
02/09/1977
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Burt Lancaster | Gen. Lawrence Dell |
Roscoe Lee Browne | James Forrest |
Joseph Cotten | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State |
Melvyn Douglas | Zachariah Guthrie |
Charles Durning | President David T. Stevens |
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 |
Directors
Writers
Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch, Walter Wager
Cast
Name | Character |
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Burt Lancaster | Gen. Lawrence Dell |
Roscoe Lee Browne | James Forrest |
Joseph Cotten | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State |
Melvyn Douglas | Zachariah Guthrie |
Charles Durning | President David T. Stevens |
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 |
Bill Walker | Willard |
David Baxt | Sgt. Willard |
Glenn Beck | Lieutenant |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Helmut Jedele | Executive Producer |
Merv Adelson | Producer |