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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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Feb 9, 1977
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Bavaria Film, Geria Productions, Allied Artists Pictures, Lorimar Motion Pictures
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Burt Lancaster
Gen. Lawrence Dell
R
Roscoe Lee Browne
James Forrest
C
Charles Durning
President David T. Stevens
J
Joseph Cotten
Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
M
Melvyn Douglas
Zachariah Guthrie
R
Richard Jaeckel
Capt. Stanford Towne
W
William Marshall
William Klinger - Attorney General
G
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Brig. Gen. O'Rourke
R
Richard Widmark
Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
P
Paul Winfield
Willis Powell
B
Burt Young
Augie Garvas
C
Charles Aidman
Bernstein
L
Leif Erickson
Ralph Whittaker - CIA Director
C
Charles McGraw
Air Force Gen. Peter Crane
M
Morgan Paull
First Lt. Louis Cannellis
S
Simon Scott
Gen. Phil Spencer - Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
W
William Smith
Hoxey
W
William Hootkins
Sgt. Fitzpatrick
B
Bill Walker
Willard
D
David Baxt
Sgt. Willard
