

"We have invaded Silo 3. We are prepared to launch nine nuclear missiles. We demand ten million dollars, Air Force One... and you, Mr President."
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.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Writers: Ronald M. Cohen, Edward Huebsch

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