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.
- Created by
- Robert Aldrich
- Origin
- US
- TMDB rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 81 votes
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Burt LancasterGen. Lawrence Dell
Roscoe Lee BrowneJames Forrest
Charles DurningPresident David T. Stevens
Joseph CottenArthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Melvyn DouglasZachariah Guthrie
Richard JaeckelCapt. Stanford Towne
William MarshallWilliam Klinger - Attorney General
Gerald S. O'LoughlinBrig. Gen. O'Rourke
Richard WidmarkGen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
Paul WinfieldWillis Powell





















