Thriller /

Score: 64%( 71 votes )

Overview: 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.

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