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Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) [R]

Release Date:
February 9, 1977

Original Title:
Twilight's Last Gleaming

Alternate Titles:
Hyökkäys tukikohtaan
La dernière lueur du crépuscule
Nuclear Countdown

Genres:
Thriller

Production Companies:
Allied Artists Pictures
Bavaria Film
Geria Productions
Lorimar Productions

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  BR: 14  DE: 12  GB: 15  GR: 16  US: R 

Runtime: 146

We have invaded Silo 3. We are prepared to launch nine nuclear missiles. We demand ten million dollars, Air Force One... and you, Mr President.

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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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Art Direction:
Werner Achmann

Camera Operator:
Gerhard Fromm
Dieter Matzka

Casting:
Jack Baur

Costume Design:
Tom Dawson

Director:
Robert Aldrich

Director of Photography:
Robert B. Hauser

Editor:
Michael Luciano
William Martin
Maury Winetrobe

Gaffer:
Georg Eck
Jack Wilson

Hairstylist:
Georg Jauss
Peter Knöpfle

Music Editor:
Joan Biel
John C. Hammell

Novel:
Walter Wager

Original Music Composer:
Jerry Goldsmith

Producer:
Merv Adelson

Production Designer:
Rolf Zehetbauer

Screenplay:
Ronald M. Cohen
Edward Huebsch

Script Supervisor:
Alvin Greenman

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
John Wilkinson

Special Effects:
Henry Millar

Still Photographer:
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann

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