Summary
Twilight’s Last Gleaming is an American thriller film first released in 1977,
directed by Robert Aldrich.
The film is based on a novel by Walter Wager and stars Burt Lancaster, Roscoe Lee Browne, Joseph Cotten, Melvyn Douglas and Charles Durning.
It has also been released under the title: Nuclear Countdown.
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Credits
- Director: Robert Aldrich
- Script: Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch, Walter Wager (novel)
- Photo: Robert B. Hauser
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Cast: 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 (Captain Stanford Towne), William Marshall (William Klinger – Attorney General), Gerald S. O’Loughlin (Brigadier General 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 (Peter Crane – General of the Air Force), Morgan Paull (First Lieutenant Louis Cannellis), Simon Scott (Phil Spencer – C’man of the Joint Chiefs), William Smith (Hoxey), Bill Walker (Willard), David Baxt (Sgt. Willard), Glenn Beck (Lieutenant), Ed Bishop (Maj. Fox), Phil Brown (Rev. Cartwright), Gary Cockrell (Capt. Jackson), Don Fellows (Gen. Stonesifer), Weston Gavin (Lt. Wilson), Garrick Hagon (Driver Alfie), Elizabeth Halliday (Stonesifer’s Secretary), David Healy (Maj. Winters), Thomasine Heiner (Nurse Edith), William Hootkins (Sgt. Fitzpatrick), Ray Jewers (Sgt. Domino), Ron Lee (Sgt. Rappaport), Robert Sherman (Maj. LeBeau), John Ratzenberger (Sgt. Kopecki), Robert MacLeod (State Trooper Chambers), Lionel Murton (Col. Horne), Robert O’Neil (Briefing Officer), Shane Rimmer (Col. Alexander B. Franklin), Pamela Roland (Sgt. Kelly), Mark Russell (Airman Mendez), Rich Steber (Capt. Kincaid), Drew W. Wesche (Lt. Witkin), Kent O. Doering (Barker), Allan Dean Moore (Sperling – a sharpshooter), M. Phil Senini (Sharpshooter), Rich Demarest (Sharpshooter), Vera Miles (Victoria Stevens (unconfirmed))
- Country: USA / West Germany
- Language: English
- Runtime: 91 min
- Aka: Nuclear Countdown
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