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
Bob Sherman
Maj. LeBeau
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
Crew
Robert Aldrich
Director
Ronald M. Cohen
Screenplay
Edward Huebsch
Screenplay
Walter Wager
Novel
William Martin
Editor
Maury Winetrobe
Editor
Michael Luciano
Editor
Robert B. Hauser
Director of Photography
Wolfgang Glattes
First Assistant Director
Helmut Jedele
Executive Producer
Harry R. Sokal
Production Supervisor
Merv Adelson
Producer
Irmi von Rüxleben
Production Assistant
Rolf Zehetbauer
Production Design
Gerhard Fromm
Camera Operator
Dieter Matzka
Camera Operator
Gernot Köhler
Assistant Camera
Franz Knoll
Assistant Camera
Jack Baur
Casting
Thomas S. Dawson
Wardrobe Supervisor, Costume Design
Herbert Lindenberg
Wardrobe Assistant
Siegi Haubold
Wardrobe Assistant
Georg Jauss
Hairstylist
Peter Knöpfle
Hairstylist
Gordon Daniel
Sound Editor
Gilbert D. Marchant
Sound Editor
Gordon Davidson
Sound Editor
John Wilkinson
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Jim Willis
Sound Mixer
Henry Millar
Special Effects
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
John C. Hammell
Music Editor
Joan Biel
Music Editor
Karl-Heinz Vogelmann
Still Photographer
Alvin Greenman
Script Supervisor
Fred Leitensdorfer
Key Grip
Jack Wilson
Gaffer
Georg Eck
Gaffer
Lutz Hengst
Production Executive
Harry R. Sherman
Production Executive
Dave Davies
Unit Publicist
Werner Achmann
Art Direction
Arthur Morton
Orchestrator
