Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) on Netflix
Air Force General Lawrence Dell breaks out of a military prison and seizes a Montana missile silo. He holds nine nuclear missiles and demands the President release a secret Vietnam War document.
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Plot summary
Lawrence Dell, Powell, Garvas, and Hoxey get inside a Montana missile complex that Dell helped build, intending to take charge of its nine Titan nuclear missiles. They make contact with the government without drawing press attention and state their price: ten million dollars and a presidential broadcast. What they want read out to the country is a classified document proving that the government knew the Vietnam War could not be won and continued fighting only to show the Soviet Union its commitment to defeating Communism. President David T. Stevens and his cabinet weigh the political and ethical cost of giving in, while Dell and his men strip the safeguards from the launch control system.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
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- Burt Lancaster and director Robert Aldrich wanted a John F. Kennedy-style president; Lancaster approached Paul Newman for the part, but Newman was unenthusiastic, so Aldrich reconfigured the character as a Mayor Daley-type politician.
- Twilight's Last Gleaming was the first feature film from Lorimar Productions, a company known for TV series such as The Waltons and Eight is Enough and TV movies such as Sybil and Helter Skelter.
- Several scenes with Vera Miles as the president's wife were shot but cut from the finished film to save time.
