Synopsis
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.
Main Casting
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
Ratings
TMDB
6.4Trailers
Technical team
Robert Aldrich Directing
Ronald M. Cohen Screenplay
Edward Huebsch Screenplay
Jerry Goldsmith Music
Merv Adelson Producing
Helmut Jedele Executive Producing
Production
Bavaria Film
Geria Productions
Allied Artists Pictures
Lorimar Motion Pictures