TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING (Masters of Cinema) (DVD & BLU-RAY DUAL FORMAT)

Thunderous political thriller and race-against-time doomsday classic starring Burt Lancaster



SYNOPSIS:



High among idiosyncratic auteur Robert Aldrich s most powerful and intense dramas, Twilight s Last Gleaming is a thunderous political thriller and race-against-time doomsday classic.

Burt Lancaster stars as the Air Force general Lawrence Dell who seizes control of a stockpile of nuclear missiles to force the US President (Charles Durning) to tell the truth about the Vietnam war. As negotiations get ever more desperate, General MacKenzie ( Richard Widmark) leads an elite fighting team into the complex to disable Dell and his team directly.

One of the most overlooked nail biters of the 1970s, Twilight s Last Gleaming is presented here on UK home video for the first time in a new Dual-Format edition.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

· High-definition digital restoration

· Uncompressed PCM audio on the Blu-ray

· English subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired

· ''Aldrich Over Munich - The Making of Twilight's Last Gleaming'' documentary

· PLUS: A booklet featuring new writing and archival images

REVIEWS:



''Twilight's Last Gleaming epitomized a paranoid, quintessentially 70s moment in American history and imagination'' New York Times



''intricate, intriguing and intelligent drama'' Variety



''An outstanding political thriller from Robert Aldrich'' IndieWire

Audio Languages: English

Number of Discs: 2

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