Twilight's Last Gleaming
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| Directed by | Robert Aldrich |
| Produced by | Merv Adelson |
| Written by | Ronald M. Cohen and Edward Huebsch (screenplay) Walter Wager (novel) |
| Starring | Burt Lancaster Richard Widmark Charles Durning Paul Winfield |
| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser |
| Editing by | Michael Luciano William Martin Maury Winetrobe |
| Distributed by | Lorimar Productions |
| Release date(s) | February 9, 1977 |
| Running time | 146 min. |
| Language | English |
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Twilight's Last Gleaming is a 1977 film directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark. It is loosely based on the 1971 novel, Viper Three, by Walter Wager. It tells the story of Lawrence Dell, a renegade USAF general, who escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana, threatening to launch the missiles and start World War III unless the President, played by Charles Durning, reveals the real reason why America fought in the Vietnam War.
A split screen technique is used at several points in the movie to give the audience insight into the simultaneously occurring strands of the storyline.
The film's title, which functions on several levels, is taken from The Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem of the United States of America:
- O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light / what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.
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