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Burt Lancaster | Gen. Lawrence Dell | |
Roscoe Lee Browne | James Forrest | |
Joseph Cotten | Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State | |
Melvyn Douglas | Zachariah Guthrie | |
Charles Durning | President David T. Stevens | |
Richard Jaeckel | Captain Stanford Towne | |
William Marshall | William Klinger - Attorney General | |
Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Brigadier General 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 | Peter Crane - General of the Air Force | |
Morgan Paull | First Lieutenant Louis Cannellis |
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Producer | Merv Adelson
Helmut Jedele |
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Writer | Walter Wager
Ronald M. Cohen |
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Cinematography | Robert B. Hauser
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Musician | Jerry Goldsmith
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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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