Storyline
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.
Released
2/9/1977
Runtime
2h 26min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
English
Production
Lorimar Productions, Bavaria Film, Geria Productions, Allied Artists Pictures
Cast
Burt Lancaster
Gen. Lawrence Dell
Roscoe Lee Browne
James Forrest
Charles Durning
President David T. Stevens
Joseph Cotten
Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Melvyn Douglas
Zachariah Guthrie
Richard Jaeckel
Capt. Stanford Towne
William Marshall
William Klinger - Attorney General
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Brig. Gen. 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
Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
Morgan Paull
First Lt. Louis Cannellis
Simon Scott
Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
William Smith
Hoxey
William Hootkins
Sgt. Fitzpatrick
Bill Walker
Willard
David Baxt
Sgt. Willard
Glenn Beck
Lieutenant
John Ratzenberger
Sgt. Kopecki
Shane Rimmer
Col. Franklin
Don Fellows
Gen. Stonesifer
Phil Brown
Rev. Cartwright
Ed Bishop
Maj. Fox
Gary Cockrell
Capt. Jackson
David Healy
Maj. Winters
Robert O'Neil
Briefing Officer
Robert MacLeod
State Trooper Chambers
Lionel Murton
Col. Horn
Garrick Hagon
Alfie/Driver
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