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Saturday Late Film: Twilight's Last Gleaming

on BBC One London

starring
Burt Lancaster , Richard Widmark Assisted by a team of ex-convicts, Lawrence Dell, an embittered cashiered general, breaks into the Launch Control Centre of a Titan missile silo and threatens to unleash the nuclear warheads. His demands are a free pardon, the disclosure of vital political secrets and the President of the USA as a hostage ...
Robert Aldrich 's tense nuclear thriller set in present-day America is being shown in its full-length version. =
Screenplay by RONALD M. COHEN EDWARD HUEBSCH Based on the novel Viper Three by WALTER WAGER
Produced by MERV ADELSON Directed by ROBERT ALDRICH
(First showing on British television) Films: page 14

Contributors

Unknown:
Burt Lancaster
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Richard Widmark
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Robert Aldrich
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Ronald M. Cohen
Unknown:
Edward Huebsch
Unknown:
Walter Wager
Produced By:
Merv Adelson
Directed By:
Robert Aldrich
Lawrence Dell:
Burt Lancaster
Martin MacKenzie, Commanding General SAC ......:
Richard Widmark
David T Stevens, President of the USA......................:
Charles Durning
Zachariah Guthrie, Secretary of Defense .................:
Melvyn Douglas
Willis Powell:
Paul Winfield
Augie Garvas:
Burt Young
Arthur Renfrew, Secretary of State:
Joseph Cotten
James Forrest:
Roscoe Lee Browne
Brigadier General Michael O'Rourke:
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Captain Stanford Towne:
Richard Jaeckel
William Klinger, Attorney-General:
William Marshall
Colonel Bernstein:
Charles Aidman
Ralph Whittaker, CIA Director:
Lief Erickson
Peter Crane, General of the Air Force:
Charles McGraw
First Lieutenant Louis Cannellis:
Morgan Paull

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