Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Directed by Robert Aldrich
A renegade USAF general, Lawrence Dell, escapes from a military prison and takes over an ICBM silo near Montana and threatens to provoke World War 3 unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting held just after the start of the Vietnam War between Dell and the then President's most trusted advisors.
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What critics compared Twilight's Last Gleaming to
Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove (both 1964) and Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) once seriously considered launches…
…the ’70s had Twilight’s Last Gleaming…
These generic bureaucratic faces seem vacant compared with those in Advise and Consent, Seven Days in May, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, and Thirteen Days…
Meticulous attention to detail, tongue-in-cheek establishing cards, a recurring time clock, even a (gratuitous) split screen recalls such caper classics as The Killing, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Twilight’s Last Gleaming.