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.
Burt Lancaster
as Gen. Lawrence Dell
Roscoe Lee Browne
as James Forrest
Charles Durning
as President David T. Stevens
Joseph Cotten
as Arthur Renfrew - Secretary of State
Melvyn Douglas
as Zachariah Guthrie
Richard Jaeckel
as Capt. Stanford Towne
William Marshall
as William Klinger - Attorney General
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
as Brig. Gen. O'Rourke
Richard Widmark
as Gen. Martin MacKenzie - Commanding General SA
Paul Winfield
as Willis Powell
Burt Young
as Augie Garvas
Charles Aidman
as Bernstein
