Twilight's Last Gleaming
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Robert Aldrich
Shane Rimmer
William Smith
Burt Young
Ron Lee
Glenn Beck
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
U. S. Air Force general Lawrence Dell escapes from a military prison and takes over a missile silo near Montana. Dell believes that the real reason for United States' involvement in Vietnam has never been told, and threatens to launch the weapons and start World War III unless the president reveals the truth.
Director
Robert Aldrich
Cast
Shane Rimmer
William Smith
Burt Young
Ron Lee
Glenn Beck
David Baxt
Drew W Wesche
Pamela Roland
Thomasine Heiner
Leif Erickson
Don Fellows
Bob Sherman
Charles Aidman
Robert O'neil
John Ratzenberger
Charles Mcgraw
Garrick Hagon
Phil Brown
Gerald S. O'loughlin
Weston Gavin
Joseph Cotten
Elizabeth Halliday
William Hootkins
Rich Steber
Phil Senini
David Healy
Morgan Paull
Ed Bishop
Rich Demarest
Simon Scott
Burt Lancaster
Bill Walker
Vera Miles
William Marshall
Mark Russel
Alan Moore
Richard Jaeckel
Charles Durning
Ray Jewers
Gary Cockrell
Lionel Murton
Richard Widmark
Kent O Doering
Roscoe Lee Browne
Paul Winfield
Melvyn Douglas
Robert Macleod
Crew
Werner Achmann
Merv Adelson
Walter Blake
Ronald M. Cohen
Gordon Daniel
Gordon Davidson
Tom Dawson
Tom Dawson
Peter Eitzert
Andrew Erwin
Wolfgang Glattes
Jerry Goldsmith
Robert Hauser
Edward Huebsch
Helmut Jedele
Michael Luciano
Gil Marchant
William Martin
Henry Millar
Arthur Morton
Willi Neuner
Billy Preston
Henri Sokal
Petra Von Oelffen
Walter Wager
John Wilkinson
Jim Willis
Maury Winetrobe
Rolf Zehetbauer
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
There are no midgets in the military.- Lawrence Dell
If you don't give me what I want, I'll light up the fucking sky!"- Lawrence Dell
Trivia
The secret policy is closely based on the 1957 book "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy" by Henry Kissinger in which the future Secretary of State outlines a strategy committing the US to promoting regional conflicts to deter the Soviets initiating full scale war.
Vera Miles role as the First Lady was deleted from the print released in cinemas
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1977
Released in United States 1994
Released in United States 1977
Released in United States 1994 (Shown in New York City (Walter Reade) as part of program "Apocalypse Anytime! The Films of Robert Aldrich" March 11 - April 8, 1994.)
