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Twilight's Last Gleaming

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Twilight's Last Gleaming

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Summary

A rogue general hijacks a nuclear missile silo to force the President to confess the real objective of the Vietnam War. Thriller, with Burt Lancaster and Roscoe Lee Browne

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Adrian Turner

If Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now had survived, he might have ended up like Burt Lancaster in this absolutely riveting thriller. Lancaster, a brilliant, medal-heavy war hero, decides to force the US government to come clean about why it fought in Vietnam. He does this by hijacking a nuclear missile silo and periodically raises the temperature by pushing the right buttons. While President Charles Durning sweats, Richard Widmark and the army gathers outside Lancaster's underground bunker. As with Lancaster's 1964 movie Seven Days in May, this is a clever, plausible and rather subversive movie that capitalised on President Carter's avowed policy of open government.

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6.7/10

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Cast

rolenameLawrence DellBurt LancasterMartin MacKenzieRichard WidmarkPresident StevensCharles DurningZachariah GuthrieMelvyn DouglasWillis PowellPaul WinfieldAugie GarvasBurt YoungArthur RenfrewJoseph CottenJames ForrestRoscoe Lee BrowneBrig Gen Michael O'RourkeGerald S O'LoughlinCapt Stanford TowneRichard JaeckelWilliam KlingerWilliam Marshall (2)Col BernsteinCharles AidmanRalph WhittakerLeif Erickson

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rolenameDirectorRobert Aldrich

Details

Released on

1977-05-26

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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