Directed by:
Robert AldrichScreenplay:
Ronald M. CohenCinematography:
Robert B. HauserComposer:
Jerry GoldsmithCast:
Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Vera Miles, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Cotten, William Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Roscoe Lee Browne (more)Plots(1)
Burt Lancaster stars as the Air Force general Lawrence Dell who seizes control of a stockpile of nuclear missiles to force the US President (Charles Durning) to tell the truth about the Vietnam war. As negotiations get ever more desperate, General MacKenzie (Richard Widmark) leads an elite fighting team into the complex to disable Dell and his team directly. High among idiosyncratic auteur Robert Aldrich’s most powerful and intense dramas, Twilight’s Last Gleaming is a thunderous political thriller and race-against-time doomsday classic. (Eureka Entertainment)
(more)Cast
![Burt Lancaster](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/384/164384699_2ca976.png)
Burt Lancaster
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Life of Verdi (1982) (series)
1900 (1976)
![Richard Widmark](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/606/165606299_296b61.jpg)
Richard Widmark
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Night and the City (1950)
![Charles Durning](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270517_795002.jpg)
Charles Durning
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Tootsie (1982)
The Front Page (1974)
![Paul Winfield](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271341_3d0445.jpg)
Paul Winfield
USA
Best movies:
The Terminator (1984)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
The Blue and the Gray (1982) (series)
![Vera Miles](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/958/167958941_rpsg50.jpg)
Vera Miles
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
The Wrong Man (1956)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
![Melvyn Douglas](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/250/164250594_d633ef.jpg)
Melvyn Douglas
USA
Best movies:
Being There (1979)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Ninotchka (1939)
![Joseph Cotten](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/267/267528_2ea5a9.jpg)
Joseph Cotten
USA
Best movies:
Gaslight (1944)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The 3rd Man (1949)
![William Smith](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270723_cbd85b.jpg)
William Smith
USA
Best movies:
Maverick (1994)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Gilda (1946)
![Richard Jaeckel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/215/164215067_dcd1f6.jpg)
Richard Jaeckel
USA
Best movies:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
![Roscoe Lee Browne](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272688_869f34.jpg)
Roscoe Lee Browne
USA
Best movies:
Spider-Man: Sins of the Fathers (1996)
The Connection (1961)
Columbo (1971) (series)
![Burt Young](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/173/168173215_iz9whj.jpg)
Burt Young
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Rocky (1976)
Chinatown (1974)
![Morgan Paull](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/456/456056_61985d.jpg)
Morgan Paull
USA
Best movies:
Patton (1970)
Blade Runner (1982)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
![Gary Cockrell](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/099/162099080_20698f.jpg)
Gary Cockrell
USA
Best movies:
Lolita (1962)
The Bedford Incident (1965)
The War Lover (1962)
William Marshall
USA
Best movies:
Maverick (1994)
The Fisher King (1991)
The Boston Strangler (1968)
![Gerald S. O'Loughlin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/720/160720739_e96200.jpg)
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
USA
Best movies:
In Cold Blood (1967)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Frances (1982)
![Garrick Hagon](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/276/276355_700170.jpg)
Garrick Hagon
UK
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Black Book (2006)
![Charles McGraw](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/412/412640_ceb22e.jpg)
Charles McGraw
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
In Cold Blood (1967)
![William Hootkins](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505340_ebf81c.jpg)
William Hootkins
USA
Best movies:
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
Batman (1989)
![John Ratzenberger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/509/161509527_54cb2a.jpg)
John Ratzenberger
USA
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Ratatouille (2007)
![Leif Erickson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/030/247/30247517_d25691.jpg)
Leif Erickson
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)